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Business has long pursued the goal of making IT more of a strategic tool and less of a necessary evil. Organizations are constantly looking for easier, cheaper, and more logical ways to build applications and unite the silos of functionality they still depend on. One approach that has met with some success is the concept of just-in-time integration - a technique to combine new functionalities as quickly and cheaply as required, whether they reside inside an organization or outside of it (i.e., with a business partner). From the architectural perspective, just-in-time integration is a cornerstone of service-oriented architecture (SOA). Under SOA, applications consist of aggregations of calls to services. Services are simply coarsely grained functions that are made availa... (more)

SOA Programming Model for Implementing Web Services

Securing access to information is basic to any application. Security becomes even more critical for implementations structured according to SOA principles due to their loose coupling of services and applications and their operation across organizational boundaries. Such an environment often exposes the delicacy or limitations of existing security implementations. Irrespective of the effic... (more)