The Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) platform is a term that encompasses a variety of proposed new standards in the area of Web services interoperability. A fair number of big corporate ...

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...

Enterprise application integration; enterprise systems integration; legacy data access: thoughts that make most of us cringe. Until now, these terms have meant long hours of frustration, sleepless ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is more than a buzzword; it is also an effective design pattern, which you can use to solve many development problems. At the heart of SOA are Web services, which ...

Edgewater Technology offers a migration strategy for the straight-through processing of financial transactions utilising Web services technology and shared business objects. The paper describes a ...

Web services may be all the rage these days, but users, developers, and even vendors are only nibbling at the edges of what this still-unfolding shift in software architecture and delivery means to ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...