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Security in a SOA As the name suggests, a Service Oriented Architecture is one where application functionality is packaged as autonomous services that adhere to industry standard interfaces (WSDL, SOAP), and the services are then deployed in an IT ... Apr. 14, 2007  Reads: 15,599

SOA World Product Review — Testing...1...2.. .3...Testing Few topics evoke more groans and eye rolling from software engineers and Web developers than the dreaded 'TESTING.' Testing falls into the same category as documentation, refactoring code, dusting, and visiting the dentist. Put it... Apr. 9, 2007  Reads: 9,737  Replies: 1

Scaling Enterprise SOA Deployments The first wave of integrating storage, computing, and networking hardware helped businesses move from client/server to Internet-based peer-to-peer networks. A second wave of integrating applications on top of the hardware infras... Apr. 2, 2007  Reads: 8,813

SOA World Editorial — Who's in Charge Here? You know, I love an election year. The drama, the emotion, the positioning, it all makes me think about running for office myself - or at least going through the motions to generate a large war chest that I can dip into (I AM from ... Mar. 31, 2007  Reads: 10,118

Chopping Down Trees: How To Build Flatter BPEL Processes? The natural visualization of a business process is of boxes and arrows arranged in a tree-like formation. A large process with numerous conditional paths forms a rather expansive tree that can't fir on a computer screen or printed... Apr. 9, 2007  Reads: 16,500