SOA applications and service integration

Tip - When developing service oriented software, SOA architects need to keep in mind these three imperatives in order to develop SOA software effectively.

Tip - Sometimes architects over-complicate web services, but indeed, effective solutions can be created without SOA, REST and SOAP.

Tip - Enterprise application developers are finding mobile application lifecycle management has challenges. ALM pro Howard Deiner advises an Agile approach.

Tip - If your organization has built up a bloated app portfolio, it's important to value each application appropriately and focus on the ones that count.

Tip - Application integration may hold much more benefit than most Java development shops realize.

Tip - When realizing SOA with TOGAF, the architect should remember that the object is to have SOA solutions that focus on managing the enterprise's complexity and provide business agility.

Tip - A service-oriented architecture can help software developers deal with complicated applications that often eat up time with excessive maintenance needs.

Tip - If interoperability and pluggability are the goals, a good way to implement business functionality is by using Web services.

Tip - Learn the basics about RESTful web services in this quick tip. You can create a RESTful Web service using nothing more than the JDK, a simple text editor and Tomcat 7.

Tip - In this tutorial, I'll walk through building a simple Web service with NetBeans 7. Let's see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support the spec have come.