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Service Orientation

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) have been in the news for a while and are picking up even further. Web Services - the currently popular technology implementation mechanism for SOAs are also getting into the mainstream.

Centipedia defines SOA as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software architectural concept that defines the use of services to support business requirements. In a SOA, resources are made available to other participants in the network as independent services that are accessed in a standardized way. Most definitions of SOA identify the use of Web Services (using SOAP, WSDL and UDDI) in its implementation, however it is possible to implement SOA using any service-based technology.

What does this mean to us? If various projects start developing softwares as independent services, they can be reused across the globe... very powerful.

posted by bkajay @ 6:42 AM