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 Web
Services and SOA
Description
Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture
Web Services are only one example of a much larger architectural
strategy: using a services-oriented approach to design and to integrate
applications. We cover both Web Services and the broader topic of SOA. Savvy IT
architects have been using SOA as a design approach for over two decades. We
have been chronicling and promoting SOA since the late 1980's, when the same
principles were referred to as "distributed object computing."
A service is a "worker" employed to achieve a specific
end goal for a "requestor." The end goal is small in scope, such as
retrieving information, or large in scope, such as executing a business
process. The services the worker performs are made visible and accessible to
other services and applications using a services API. Web Services use
self-describing APIs written in human and machine-readable XML.
We offer a services discovery and classification methodology.
Our methodology starts from your customers--by identifying your customers' key
scenarios and discovering and classifying the services required to support
those scenarios.
Featured Research
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Observations
From the Field: SOA
Conversations with Architects and Technologists on the Hard
Part, the Hype, and Zero Code
05/04/2006 - Brenda Michelson
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StrikeIron’s
Web Services Marketplace
A Glimpse of the Future, Available Today
04/06/2006 - Brenda Michelson
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Enterprise
Service Bus Routes
Our Enterprise Service Bus Test Plan
03/09/2006 - Brenda Michelson
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Event-Driven
Architecture Overview
Event-Driven SOA is Just Part of the EDA Story
02/02/2006 - Brenda Michelson
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IT
Linchpin 2006: The Enterprise Architect
What Does a Great Enterprise Architect Look Like?
1/5/2006 - Brenda Michelson
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Planning
and Conducting Enterprise Service Bus RidesSM
Activities and Tips for Your Bus Rides, Plus a Preview of Our
Bus Ride Series
12/15/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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Best
Practices, Lessons Learned, and Takeaways from Enterprise SOA Practitioners
A Report from InfoWorld’s SOA Executive Forum
11/23/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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A
New Service-Oriented Architecture Maturity Model
SOA MM from Sonic Software, Systinet, AmberPoint, and
BearingPoint Now Public
11/3/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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Open
Source Considerations
Evaluation Criteria for Open Source Solutions
10/20/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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The
Vanilla Layer Cake Theory
Using Service-Orientation for Non-Invasive Application
Package Customization
10/6/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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Thinking
about Oracle’s Application Portfolio Challenges
Using Service-Orientation and Integration to Build the Future
and Augment the Present
09/22/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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Business
Process Execution Language (BPEL) Primer
Understanding an Important Component of SOA and Integration
Strategies
09/08/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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Enterprise
Service Bus Evaluation Matrix
A Blank Matrix to Facilitate Your Evaluation
08/11/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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Enterprise
Service Bus Evaluation Framework
Criteria for Selecting an Enterprise Service Bus as an
Integration Backbone
07/28/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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Java
Business Integration (JBI) Gains Industry Support
A Look at the JBI Specification and What it Means
07/14/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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Web
Services, Services, and SOA: What Companies Care About
Results from Release 2 of our Web Services Survey
06/30/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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"Service-Oriented
World" Cheat Sheet
A Guide to Key Concepts, Technology, and More…
06/02/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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Enterprise
Service Bus Q&A
Considering the Enterprise Service Bus as a Backbone
Candidate for the Networked Integration Environment
05/19/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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Web
Services: What Companies Cared About in 2002
Results from Our First Web Services Survey
05/12/2005 - Susan Aldrich
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BEA
Systems Answers the Vision Question(s)
Our Report from BEA Systems’ 2005 Industry Analyst
Summit
04/28/2005 - Brenda Michelson
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