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Developers are showing a trend toward favoring the use of Java vs. .NET when it comes to implementing service-oriented architectures (SOAs), according to analysis from Evans Data Corp. The research ...

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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

ZDNet Blogging colleague Dana Gardner just surfaced Michael Meehan's top eight picks for SOA and Web services stories of 2006. Mike does a great job of spotting the most important news shaping the SOA ...

BEA Systems has redefined itself several times in its short history. Originally set up to sell the Tuxedo transaction manager, the company made a deft acquisition of the WebLogic application server in ...

Like it or not most mission critical processing still happens on a mainframe today. Mainframes literally run the business world. Unfortunately, most companies with systems older then ten years are ...

When it comes to crafting SOA services, .NET has a slight -- very slight -- advantage over Java. As of now, 31 percent of SOA developers code in .NET, with 28 percent writing in Java. But Java is ...

At the recent Oracle OpenWorld event, Oracle announced a series of new enhancements to its Java middleware stack, which incorporates application server and Java tools from last year's BEA acquisition.