Thomas Rischbeck, a contributor to Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns, wants to clear the air on some of the confusion and controversy that has been associated with enterprise service buses (ESBs). From ...

With SOA, businesses moved from monolithic applications to heterogeneous designs by decomposing functionality into services. However, architects must be careful when integrating services. Often ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. For years the Enterprise Service ...

Forgive my harping on this, but I keep hearing about how powerful social media is for gathering insights from the IT communities and users. Yet I rarely see actual market research conducted via the ...