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 ...

We will explain here the basic architecture of Web Services. We have already discussed in our previous article that the three basic operations in any Web Service are Service Publication, Service ...

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Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...

The Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA) platform is a term that encompasses a variety of proposed new standards in the area of Web services interoperability. A fair number of big corporate ...

What is Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)? SOA is a confusing term because it describes two very different things. The first two words describe a software development methodology. The third word, ...

REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

Much of the recent focus of the OPC Unified Architecture team has been the completion and testing of the OPC UA communication stacks and SDKs in portable C/C++, .NET and Java. While these code ...

Web 3.0 is a blockchain technology-based internet paradigm that is transparent and decentralized. But, Web 3.0 streaming services require modifications to the existing service structure due to certain ...