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.

Although SOA is often thought of as synonymous with Web services architecture (WSA), WSA is just one example of an architecture embodying these principles.

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 ...

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?

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.

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

There’s no question SOA is here to stay. In fact, all of cloud computing is fundamentally based on SOA. The same is true of today’s digital architectures – scratch the surface and you’ll ...

In fact, a true service-oriented architecture should only have services with a direct counterpart in the business; otherwise they cannot possibly be modeling a business process.

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.

In other words, SOA can handle the non- and near-real-time applications that make up the vast majority of the modern broadcast facility. There are many business challenges that are easily solved by ...