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 ...

This image from Arlen Nipper’s presentation on applying message oriented middleware (MOM) to operational systems shows the basic MOM topology underlying MQTT’s application. Amid all the change that’s ...

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 ...

Application infrastructure middleware (AIM) is a software-based solution used for mediating between networked operating systems and applications. It is usually set up between the operating systems and ...

Web services standards need to mature before SOA can really take off. Companies today can implement a limited form of SOA in traditional middleware environments, such as Common Object Request Broker ...

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 ...