Articles

Loosen Up
This article aims to decipher what is meant by "loose-coupling" of services, what patterns exist to best exploit this important property and to then drill down on one aspect of loose-coupling -- location and invocation independence. Nov. 4, 2004

Do the Service Salsa
This article will look at BPEL4WS, which focuses on business-process definition and WS-Addressing, which provides dynamic transport-neutral ways of identifying service endpoints. May. 26, 2004

SOA Much More Than Web Services
Whenever the average, albeit technically savvy, man on the street is asked about Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), the first thing that will pop into his head is Web Services. This is not surprising since, despite being around for some time, the term SOA has had its visibility increased dramatically on the coat-tails of the Web Services rise to fame. May. 26, 2004