The
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a distributed software
model. The primary characteristics of an SOA are:
- Services
are used to divide larger applications into smaller discrete
modules.
- Services
are integrated via service
composition mechanisms to create larger applications.
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It is said that an
SOA is usually comprised of three primary parties:
Web Services are considered an example of a Service
Oriented Architecture. Service
Networks take on the properties of an SOA. |