This glossary supports the following titles:
SOA Design Patterns
Web Service Contract Design & Versioning for SOA
SOA Principles of Service Design
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
Modern SOA Infrastructure: Technology, Design, and Governance
SOA with REST
Next Generation SOA: A Real-World Guide to Modern Service-Oriented Computing
SOA with .NET & Azure
SOA with Java
SOA Governance
SOA Security: Practices, Patterns, and Technologies for Securing Services
SOA and Cloud Computing: Practices, Patterns, Technologies
This glossary also supports the SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) program.
For more information, visit: www.soacp.com
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www.soaschool.com
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RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
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A technology platform used to enable components on different physical servers to communicate with each other. RPC technology relies on the use of a proxy that represents a remote component by providing a local copy of that component’s technical interface for the component initiating the invocation of the remote component.
From an SOA perspective, RPC-based application designs tend to focus on the exchange of granular parameter data. This type of interaction is often known as RPC-centric data exchange and is in contrast to the coarser-grained data exchange that is sometimes considered more preferable for services. Coarse-grained data granularity is often referred to as document-centric message exchanges because it is typically implemented using Web services (or another messaging-based platform) to exchange larger portions of data at once. Often these bodies of data represent entire business documents, such as invoices and customer records.
See also:
- capability granularity
- component
- data granularity
- service
- service-orientation
- Web service
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