J2EE, .NET, and other systems are excellent, but every organization has some type of legacy system. Web service technology can be used to bring these systems to the masses.

REST is an architectural style and set of architectural principles and technically speaking, REST is a web service architecture, even though most people think of SOAP as web services.

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.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A design framework wherein loosely coupled, interoperable services communicate over a network to support scalable and flexible application development.

Amazon Web Services is the darling of the cloud. It is the pioneer in developing elastic infrastructures. As Randy Bias of Cloudscaling said to me a few months ago, AWS is like one big computer.

Edgewater Technology offers a migration strategy for the straight-through processing of financial transactions utilising Web services technology and shared business objects.