The first word in SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is “simple,” but the world of Web services has become very complicated. In early 2000 the SOAP specification was published, and it was quickly ...

A couple years ago, everyone was wildly excited over a handful of promising new XML standards. The pundits were aflutter about “applications as services,” where enterprises would lease each other’s ...

The principal layers of an SOA-enabling infrastructure are service brokers, orchestration engines, message-oriented middleware environments and service-level management tools. The principal layers of ...

The two most common transport layer protocols are the transmission control protocol (TCP) and the user datagram protocol (UDP). One of the main differences between the two protocols is reliability.