SOA Glossary - service-oriented architecture (SOA)

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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

service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Service-oriented architecture represents an architectural model that aims to enhance the agility and cost-effectiveness of an enterprise while reducing the overall burden of IT on an organization. It accomplishes this by positioning services as the primary means through which solution logic is represented. SOA supports service-orientation in the realization of the strategic goals associated with service-oriented computing.

As a form of technology architecture, an SOA implementation can consist of a combination of technologies, products, APIs, supporting infrastructure extensions, and various other parts. The actual face of a deployed service-oriented architecture is unique within each enterprise; however it is typified by the introduction of new technologies and platforms that specifically support the creation, execution, and evolution of service-oriented solutions. As a result, building a technology architecture around the service-oriented architectural model establishes an environment suitable for solution logic that has been designed in compliance with service-orientation design principles.

Historically, the term "service-oriented architecture" (or "SOA") has been used so broadly by the media and within vendor marketing literature that it has almost become synonymous with service-oriented computing itself.

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