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bdpatoday
SUNDAY | Volume 31 | 09.20.09 |
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The Week Ahead
NBDPA event calendars are enhanced by
BDPA Chapters | September 20th
bdpatoday|Chapter news and daily serial publications continue with monthly or Fall 2009 coverage. Select your current issue to discover more ...
BDPA Philadelphia | Tuesday, September 22nd
Microsoft Roadshow: Mid-Atlantic 1pm-5pm (Malvern, PA)
BDPA Philadelphia | Tuesday, September 22nd
Policy Panel: Broadband Policy panel and discussion; 7PM
BDPA Charlotte | Tuesday, September 22nd
BDPA New Orleans CIG | Tuesday, September 22nd
NBMBAA (Black MBA's) 31st Annual Conference & Expo
BDPA Atlanta| Wednesday, September 23rd
Program Meeting: The Business Value of SOA.
Click here for details ...
BDPA NoVA & Washington | Saturday, September 26th
PRINCE GEORGE'S CLASSIC & College Fair | Details
* Networking events occur Thursday & Friday this week
CBCF Annual Legislative Conference & Expo | Details
Mid-Atlantic Girls Collaborative (MAGiC) Kick-Off
S.T.E.M. Kick-Off Conference | Details
bdpatoday | online
Missed one? In case we missed you yesterday, our newsletter archives and Acronym of the Day are updated each week for new BDPA chapter interest groups (CIGs) and new BDPA members up to the last 100 online editions.
Congress:
U.S. Senate
Reconvenes, Monday, September 21st, 2009 at 2:00 pm to resume consideration of H.R.2998, the Interior Appropriations bill.
U.S. House of Representatives
The House meets at 4:00 pm EDT, Monday, September 21st, 2009.
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SOA
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the underlying structure supporting communications between services. SOA defines how two computing entities, such as programs, interact in such a way as to enable one entity to perform a unit of work on behalf of another entity. Service interactions are defined using a description language. Each interaction is self-contained and loosely coupled, so that each interaction is independent of any other interaction.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based Web services are becoming the most common implementation of SOA. However, there are non-Web services implementations of SOA that provide similar benefits. The protocol independence of SOA means that different consumers can communicate with the service in different ways. Ideally, there should be a management layer between the providers and consumers to ensure complete flexibility regarding implementation protocols.
Whether one realizes it or not, people probably relied upon SOA, perhaps when making a purchase online. Let's use Land's End as an example. Look at their catalog and choose a number of items. Specify an order through one service, which communicates with an inventory service to find out if the items requested are available in the desired sizes and colors. The order and shipping details are submitted to another service which calculates a total, tells us when our order should arrive and furnishes a tracking number that, through another service, will allow us to keep track of an order's status and location en route to our door. The entire process, from the initial order to its delivery, is managed by communications between the Web services -- programs talking to other programs, all made possible by the underlying framework that SOA provides.
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Bowie State University
vs.
Shaw Univeristy
September 26, 2009
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NROTC Scholarships
now on deck @ BDPA!
Cover story in bdpatoday
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FALL 2009 Print Edition
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