SOA methodologies were put to work for a range of jobs in 2008, from speeding up mergers to mainframe/legacy integration with customer systems to helping prevent black holes.

SOA helps high finance, e-business, customer service, end-user mashups, and the 'Smart Grid' Here are some of this year's leading examples of SOA at work (the first five of ten shining examples ...

Rich Levin interviews Michael Richardson, CTO of Sterling Infosystems, about the challenges and rewards of building an SOA from the ground up, and polishing the results into an impressive case study.

When building an enterprise-class architecture capable of supporting multiple systems and lines of business, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is considered an industry-leading practice. SOA in ...

For example, if you have nodes on a network that are service-oriented and 100 people are using a certain interface, how do you communicate with those users if someone decides to change the interface?

You have to hand it to some organizations, they are indeed thinking proactively around SOA. Case is point is the "Government of Canada Service Oriented Architecture Strategy - Statement of ...

The future of software is service-oriented architecture, according to Charles Stack, president of Flashline.

A clever SOA designer, for example, could create a Web service to talk to the VAX. Then other applications could drive its machinery using the service as an interface.

Service-oriented architecture has been a major buzzword throughout the U.S. Defense Department for several years, yet implementation has been slow and troubled. Private industry giants such as Amazon.

The benefits of the service-oriented architecture are widely touted: reduced integration costs, greater asset reuse, and the ability for IT to respond more quickly to changing business and ...