Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) Blogs

It’s Time to Think Like Facebook and Bring Social Media into the Enterprise

|   Businesses don’t want their conversations to be lost in the public sphere. If social media is incorporated more into enterprise software; if it is easy to use; if the data is safe and easily traceable – how can it fail?

The Quantum of Integration

|   If you've read books such as the Dancing Wu Li Masters or are otherwise familiar with quantum mechanics, you have probably heard the idea that at its most fundamental level, reality does not exist until the observer interacts with it.

Loose Coupling – What does it really mean?

|   Every developer of the last decade knows that coupling in software is bad.  It is an anti-pattern, an example of what not to do.  Yet if you ask developers what loose coupling is they mostly give examples, not a definition.  I myself couldn’t create a clear definition until

Principles of Service Design

|   This is a bit off topic from my UDDI series, but I felt compelled to write something on the subject as I am about to do another seminar that will cover this.  Throughout my seminar (and in my future series on Service Orientation – which may preempt part of the UDDI series) I will be presenting a...

Anatomy of a UDDI Registry

|   Previously I presented UDDI in a very high level abstraction.  Now we’ll look a little more closely at the structure of UDDI in the real world.  In my earlier entry I mentioned UDDI servers from IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and open source vendors.

Why UDDI Is Important

|   Web Services are a great advance in our quest for the Service Oriented Enterprise, but most enterprises overlook the importance of a Service Registry (UDDI).  This article outlines reasons why UDDI is critical to successful SOA initiatives and reviews recent enhancements to the UDDI standard. 

SOA: Dead Or Alive?

|   Some recent buzz in the industry would have you believe that “SOA is dead,” but that just isn’t the case — SOA is far from being dead, outdated, or irrelevant. In fact, its use and influence are still growing. A recent Forrester survey indicates that 75% of Global 2000 organizations will be...

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