LOS ANGELES — Just as many IT shops are starting to get their arms around the service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach now that Web services standards are emerging, there’s already a “next big ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Middleware sits between system and application software, helping developers create ...

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 ...

For years, I/S organizations saw message oriented middleware, or message queuing, as a high risk solution. Today that risk is diminishing quickly. For more than two decades, companies have mostly used ...

Enterprise service bus is the most promising new middleware approach. ESB generally refers to integration software that supports simple, expedited, loosely coupled, standards-based, service-oriented ...