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whitepaper A relatively new subdiscipline in architecture that has gained significant prominence is the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA, frequently touted as the elixir to an enterprise's problem of application inflexibility and high maintenance cost...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper This paper is the third in a series about developing composite applications to enable business services. The paper focuses on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. By using a facade component as a REST-style interface...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper The prevailing evolution in software development is moving from traditional software architecture to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In SOA, one thinks of a project as the delivery of integrated services - some new, some existing.
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper The SOA scenarios represent a set of generic business scenarios in which SOA is being used in typical customer engagements. IBM's wealth of customer-engagement-based experience in SOA implementation has been consolidated into the SOA scenario...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper When first entertaining the notion of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), most information technology (IT) professionals and business leaders rightly imagine the many benefits that their organizations will see in improved customer interaction...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper One has probably been hearing a lot about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM and others in the IT industry: about its inevitability as an enterprise software architectural style of choice; about how, if one has anything to do with...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper This installment in the Architecture in practice series focuses on the Business Process Management (BPM) scenario, the third of the SOA scenarios. View Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) within a software-development life cycle context using the...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper In this paper, Matt Haynos provides a cursory analysis of the similarities and differences between grid computing and SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques. SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques are highly synergistic.
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper This 17th part in the series focuses on new products that lets one implement a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) life cycle. In the model phase, IBM WebSphere Business Modeler (Modeler) is used to design and optimize the desired business...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is the body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have compiled. There is no question that the successful implementation of Service-Oriented...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming widely accepted, but there are gaps in the industry's approach, level of experience, and understanding of how to apply SOA to enterprise IT environments.
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper The first paper in this series discusses the technical requirements for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects. When the enterprise has a collection of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) services, the requirements-gathering process can be...
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper There is a lot of talk about SOA, yet very little agreement on what this popular three-letter acronym actually means. There was little chance of selecting a single "Best" definition because SOA means different things to different people.
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper In this paper, one will get an overview of WebSphere Extended Deployment and how it can help the organization realize a dynamic, goals-driven grid infrastructure built on virtualization and which is ideal for SOA environments.
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper In Part 1 of this series, the paper introduced the Service Component Architecture (SCA) as a programming model for building and assembling integration solutions with an overview of what SCA is, and with definitions of some related terminology.
[16 May 2008]
whitepaper Service interface structure is of primary importance in SOA because poorly designed service interfaces can have a negative effect on all applications that need to use them. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emphasizes loose coupling between...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) offers the promise of business agility and resilience through reuse, loose coupling, flexibility, interoperability, integration and governance. These are realized by separating service descriptions from their...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) means different things to different people. To an IT architect, SOA is an architectural style and paradigm that enables the creation of modular and loosely coupled services that can be composed and choreographed...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper IBM Service-Oriented Architecture experts define an SOA reference architecture based on multiple projects in various industries over the past three years. One can use the reference architecture to organize one's own SOA design, development, and...
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper This paper examines the use of asset lifecycle management practices, tools, and standards in the development of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions. Effective lifecycle management of services enables organizations to apply tools and...
[15 May 2008]
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