A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

Sun Microsystems (perhaps soon to be Snorkel if the Oracle acquisition goes through) just released a new raft of platforms and tools targeted at SOA-aware service development and deployment. The key ...

A microservices application is one that is composed of a series of discrete services, which communicate with one another via an API. Microservices apps are the opposite of monolithic applications. The ...

Seeking to make the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and its sibling Service Data Objects (SDO) the basis for a new generation of standardized architecture in the SOA era, the large IT vendors ...

When it comes to crafting SOA services, .NET has a slight -- very slight -- advantage over Java. As of now, 31 percent of SOA developers code in .NET, with 28 percent writing in Java. But Java is ...