For Microsoft, binding .Net to Web services represents a profound shift in the company’s strategy. Microsoft has pried open a space between its development tools and its technology architecture.

Web services extend the boundary-spanning integration capabilities of the document Web by using a fully service-oriented architecture to define a business services Web enabling simple, uniform ...

Amazon Web Services is the darling of the cloud. It is the pioneer in developing elastic infrastructures. As Randy Bias of Cloudscaling said to me a few months ago, AWS is like one big computer.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A design framework wherein loosely coupled, interoperable services communicate over a network to support scalable and flexible application development.

J2EE, .NET, and other systems are excellent, but every organization has some type of legacy system. Web service technology can be used to bring these systems to the masses.

Web services may be all the rage these days, but users, developers, and even vendors are only nibbling at the edges of what this still-unfolding shift in software architecture and delivery means ...

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Edgewater Technology offers a migration strategy for the straight-through processing of financial transactions utilising Web services technology and shared business objects.

He will present on Web-oriented architecture at the Gartner Application Integration & Web Services Summit, which begins on June 19 in San Diego.