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

• Observations From the Field: SOA
  Conversations with Architects and Technologists on the Hard Part, the Hype, and Zero Code
  05/04/2006 - Brenda Michelson
• StrikeIron’s Web Services Marketplace
  A Glimpse of the Future, Available Today
  04/06/2006 - Brenda Michelson
• Enterprise Service Bus Routes
  Our Enterprise Service Bus Test Plan
  03/09/2006 - Brenda Michelson
• Event-Driven Architecture Overview
  Event-Driven SOA is Just Part of the EDA Story
  02/02/2006 - Brenda Michelson
• IT Linchpin 2006: The Enterprise Architect
  What Does a Great Enterprise Architect Look Like?
  1/5/2006 - Brenda Michelson
• Planning and Conducting Enterprise Service Bus Rides^SM
  Activities and Tips for Your Bus Rides, Plus a Preview of Our Bus Ride Series
  12/15/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• Best Practices, Lessons Learned, and Takeaways from Enterprise SOA Practitioners
  A Report from InfoWorld’s SOA Executive Forum
  11/23/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• A New Service-Oriented Architecture Maturity Model
  SOA MM from Sonic Software, Systinet, AmberPoint, and BearingPoint Now Public
  11/3/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• Open Source Considerations
  Evaluation Criteria for Open Source Solutions
  10/20/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• The Vanilla Layer Cake Theory
  Using Service-Orientation for Non-Invasive Application Package Customization
  10/6/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• 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
• Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Primer
  Understanding an Important Component of SOA and Integration Strategies
  09/08/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• Enterprise Service Bus Evaluation Matrix
  A Blank Matrix to Facilitate Your Evaluation
  08/11/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• Enterprise Service Bus Evaluation Framework
  Criteria for Selecting an Enterprise Service Bus as an Integration Backbone
  07/28/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• Java Business Integration (JBI) Gains Industry Support
  A Look at the JBI Specification and What it Means
  07/14/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• Web Services, Services, and SOA: What Companies Care About
  Results from Release 2 of our Web Services Survey
  06/30/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• "Service-Oriented World" Cheat Sheet
  A Guide to Key Concepts, Technology, and More…
  06/02/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• Enterprise Service Bus Q&A
  Considering the Enterprise Service Bus as a Backbone Candidate for the Networked Integration Environment
  05/19/2005 - Brenda Michelson
• Web Services: What Companies Cared About in 2002
  Results from Our First Web Services Survey
  05/12/2005 - Susan Aldrich
• 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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