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 Service-oriented architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Service oriented architecture relies on the ability to identify services and their capabilities.
In computing, the term Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) expresses a perspective of software architecture that defines the use of services to support the requirements of software users.
The modeling and design methodology for SOA applications has become known by the terms service-oriented analysis and design and SODA.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Service-oriented_architecture   (1708 words)

  
 What is service-oriented architecture?
As the latest evolution of software, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been a hot topic for sometime now.
ervice-oriented architecture (SOA) is an evolution of distributed computing based on the request/reply design paradigm for synchronous and asynchronous applications.
SOA enables upgrading individual services or services consumers; it is not necessary to completely rewrite an application or keep an existing system that no longer addresses the new business requirements.
www.javaworld.com /javaworld/jw-06-2005/jw-0613-soa.html   (1771 words)

  
 Cover Pages: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
For the purposes of this paper, SOA is defined by abstracting the common concepts and elements from architectures and standards that claim to be service oriented.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an evolution of the Component Based Architecture, Interface Based Design (Object Oriented) and Distributed Systems of the 1990s, such as DCOM, CORBA, J2EE, and the Internet in general.
SOA does not have a standardized, reference model yet; however, implementations share the main concepts of services, service descriptions, advertising and discovery, the specification of an associated data model, and the use of a service contract.
xml.coverpages.org /soa.html   (5881 words)

  
 webservices.xml.com: What Is Service-Oriented Architecture
SOA leverages the use of web services as a means of communicating with other systems so anyone can send in data and not have to worry where it is coming from.
Stateful services require both the consumer and the provider to share the same consumer-specific context, which is either included in or referenced by messages exchanged between the provider and the consumer.
The idea of SOA departs significantly from that of object oriented programming, which strongly suggests that you should bind data and its processing together.
webservices.xml.com /pub/a/ws/2003/09/30/soa.html   (4598 words)

  
 .NET Architecture Center: Service Oriented Architecture
The goal for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a world-wide mesh of collaborating services that are published and available for invocation on a Service Bus.
These benefits are delivered not just by viewing service architecture from a technology perspective or by adopting Web Service protocols, but also by requiring the creation of a Service Oriented Environment that is based on specific key principles.
Gain an in-depth understanding of Microsoft's vision for service orientation and service-oriented architecture in enterprise computing.
msdn.microsoft.com /architecture/soa/default.aspx   (654 words)

  
 Java(TM) Boutique - Service Oriented Architecture - Part 1
Services also define a schema for the input to be supplied to the Service by its consumer.
Services are defined as a set of well-defined interfaces, which are generic in nature.
The inherent nature of SOA is that Services work with an extendible Schema and thereby can cope with various different types of entities that the Service is dealing with.
javaboutique.internet.com /tutorials/serv_orient   (909 words)

  
 What is Service-Oriented Architecture? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
This is the first in a series of papers intended to help you better understand the value of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), and to develop a realistic plan for evaluating your current infrastructure and migrating it to a true service-oriented architecture.
Though built on similar principles, SOA is not the same as Web services, which indicates a collection of technologies, such as SOAP and XML.
Practical Computer Applications: Object-Oriented Programming - Offer applications that work on Windows desktops, work the same way over the Internet, have PDA capabilities, and are scalable to large organizations.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/S/Service_Oriented_Architecture.html   (384 words)

  
 Service-Oriented Architecture ZDNet.com
SOA purists will point out that nobody really even has attained what can be considered "service-oriented architectures," and we'll probably never see it.
Services can now be developed, published, and consumed by entities anywhere across the globe, and the economies gained through leveraging standardized, reusable, and loosely coupled services will level the playing field between North American, European IT shops and those in emerging regions such as India and China.
SOA is not an end in and of itself, but a methodology, or way of thinking about loosely coupling and aligning systems to meet business process requirements.
blogs.zdnet.com /service-oriented   (7361 words)

  
 Service-Oriented Architecture
The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an accepted industry model for representing applications on the network as re-usable services.
In all cases, requests are made of the services by a calling application that expects some form of reply.
For example, a WSDL representing a remote Web service from a non-mainframe application can be identified, automatically parsed and converted to re-usable mainframe COBOL copybooks and programs which can be integrated with existing mainframe applications to leverage functionality found on other computing platforms.
www.neonsys.com /solutions/service_oriented_architecture.asp   (278 words)

  
 Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures
The advent of Web Services and service-oriented architectures makes "keeping up" all the more important, because these technologies are fundamentally changing the way we build our internal systems—those that support our organizations—and how internal and external systems will interact.
He is also the author of a book that explains Web Services and service-oriented architectures in an easy-to-understand, a non-technical manner.
It features free articles, services, and product listings that can be used to develop a service-oriented architecture using Web Services.
www.service-architecture.com   (488 words)

  
 Understanding Service-Oriented Architecture
SOA is a relatively new term, but the term "service" as it relates to a software service has been around since at least the early 1990s, when it was used in Tuxedo to describe "services" and "service processes" (Herzum 2002).
Service consumers are not concerned with how the service goes about executing their requests; they expect only that it will.
It is important for service designers and developers to understand the concepts of SOA, so that they can make the most effective use of Web services in their environment.
www.developer.com /design/article.php/2207371   (1149 words)

  
 Service Oriented Architecture
The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a distributed software model.
Web Services are considered an example of a Service Oriented Architecture.
Services are used to divide larger applications into smaller discrete modules.
www.serviceoriented.org /service_oriented_architecture.html   (65 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Service-Oriented Architecture : A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services: Books: Thomas Erl
Building service-oriented architecture with less risk, cost, and complexity The emergence of key second-generation Web services standards has positioned service-oriented architecture (SOA) as the foremost platform for contemporary business automation solutions.
I have used many of these strategies in my work in technology architecture and have silently thanked the author many times as his advice has not only helped me solve problems but also better streamline and optimise my solution designs.
The integration of SOA principles and technology is empowering organizations to build applications with unprecedented levels of flexibility, agility, and sophistication (while also allowing them to leverage existing legacy environments).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131428985?v=glance   (2334 words)

  
 Service-Oriented Architecture: Beyond Web Services @ JAVA DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL
The problem with using Web services exclusively in a service-oriented architecture is that developers have to wrap any functionality they want to expose as a Web service.
This makes sense in cases where the service is built using a foreign technology or is supplied by a different vendor, but ideally you would try to avoid the overhead of packing and unpacking data into XML for services running on the same infrastructure.
To this end, the main requirement of an SOA is that the interface to the services is decoupled from the implementation.
java.sys-con.com /read/44368.htm?CFID=33259&...   (2730 words)

  
 Service Oriented Architecture
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the future of IT services.
Sun and its SOA partners have a complete offering of infrastructure software, development tools, and support services, including education, to help you build an SOA solution with a quick ROI.
Allows business users to define and integrate the information services they use
www.sun.com /products/soa/index.jsp   (353 words)

  
 dev2dev Online: Service-oriented Architecture
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a design methodology aimed at maximizing the reuse of application-neutral services to increase IT adaptability and efficiency.
While these concepts have existed for decades, the adoption of SOA is accelerating due to the emergence of standards-based integration technologies like Web services and XML.
SOA Blueprints takes a unique approach to blueprinting through an open specification defining a fictious corporation, enables multiple diverse implementations, and aims for wide industry adoption through a public and expert review process.
dev2dev.bea.com /soa   (773 words)

  
 IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
SOA Architect Summits set the stage for your SOA planning.
SOA Reality TV: Hear from customers, partners, and analysts.
SOA by Industry helps you find the best solutions.
www-306.ibm.com /software/solutions/soa   (133 words)

  
 Service-Oriented Architecture Technology Center
Forward-thinking architects and developers are addressing the complexity of their application and IT environments with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which facilitates the development of enterprise applications as modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused, creating a truly flexible, adaptable IT infrastructure.
Learn techniques for designing service interface definitions that will help you reap the benefits of standardized service-oriented architecture.
In this JDJ article, Oracle's Chris Schalk and Michael O'Neill clarify the often obscure path from high-level architectural principles to programming a functioning, real-world service.
www.oracle.com /technology/tech/webservices   (171 words)

  
 SOA (service-oriented architecture)
A service-oriented architecture is a way of connecting applications across a network via a common communications protocol.
A selling point of an SOA is code reuse - developers have only to figure out the interfaces for existing applications, rather than writing new applications from scratch each time new business rules are developed.
It would be more interesting to hear how others have moved SOA into their organziations, it's governance, management, and subsequent realized business value/risk mitigation.
www.networkworld.com /details/6187.html   (931 words)

  
 Service-oriented architecture  InfoWorld Column 2005-01-21 By Kevin McKean
Each new Web service must be designed not only to fit existing ones but to serve new ones that have yet to be imagined.
Newcomer -- whose book Understanding SOA with Web Services (with co-author Greg Lomow) was recently published by Addison-Wesley -- says companies are most likely to adopt SOA when facing a painful integration, such as integrating legacy customer databases after a bank merger.
Enabling Virtualization in the Datacenter with Neterion's Hyperframe - "Discover Neterion's Hyperframe™ I/O Virtualization (IOV) Architecture, and its role in the hardware and software virtualization ecosystem.
www.infoworld.com /article/05/01/21/04OPeditor_1.html   (1277 words)

  
 eWEEK.com Special Report: Service-Oriented Architecture
Digital Evolution Inc. is turning its focus to service-oriented architectures and changing its name to SOA Software Inc. to reflect the new direction.
Coupled with new SOA-oriented HP consulting services, OpenView SOA Manager can be used to develop and enforce SOA policies, create SOA SLAs (service-level agreements) and manage the full SOA service life cycle.
The Web services provider acquires Flamenco in a move to cement its position in the field of SOA security and management software.
www.eweek.com /category2/0,1874,1571000,00.asp   (3427 words)

  
 Oracle Service Oriented Architecture
Leading companies are tackling the complexity of their application and IT environments with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which facilitates the development of modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused — creating a truly flexible, adaptable IT infrastructure.
Lower development costs — SOA services are easily reused and can be rapidly assembled like building blocks into new, composite applications without higher-cost manual programming
An SOA approach within your IT infrastructure provides significant benefits that ultimately allow your IT organization to focus more resources and budget on innovation and on delivering new business services:
www.oracle.com /technologies/soa   (285 words)

  
 IBM Systems Journal Vol. 44, No. 4, 2005 - Service-Oriented Architecture
Impact of service-oriented architecture on enterprise systems, organizational structures, and individuals
Analysis and simulation of business solutions in a service-oriented architecture
Service-oriented thinking is becoming popular in both the business and the information technology (IT) communities because it holds the promise of interoperability between heterogeneous systems, reuse of components, and flexible and efficient business processes.
www.research.ibm.com /journal/sj44-4.html   (253 words)

  
 Thomas Erl's Service-Oriented Architecture Books (Official Book Website)
top-selling SOA book for well over a year (also ranked as the top-selling Web Services book)
comprehensive documentation of legacy and contemporary integration architectures
comprehensive study of SOA support in J2EE and.NET development and runtime platforms
www.soabooks.com   (168 words)

  
 Ali Arsanjani - Software Architecture - Patterns- Grammar-oriented Object design - Component-based - Service-oriented Architecture - Service-Oriented Architecture -Web Services - UML - Object-oriented- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) - Web Services
I use patterns to design and build stable yet adaptable software edifices that withstand the test of time and clients using variation-oriented design.
I teach and research topics in computer science, software engineering, software architecture and patterns that are promising in helping to build better systems; to make life easier for people who use the systems.
As an architect, I am responsible to my clients for designing and implementing reliable and robust multi-tier software systems.
www.arsanjani.org   (168 words)

  
 Service-oriented transformation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Service-oriented transformation represents new methodologies and approaches that incorporate new technology trends such as service-oriented architecture, enterprise service bus, and model-driven architecture.
Service-oriented transformation is a reorientation of business planning processes made possible through the deployment of new service-oriented integration infrastructures.
These discrete services can then be seamlessly accessed and delivered, as well as combined into new services.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Service-oriented_transformation   (168 words)

  
 Service-Oriented Architecture - Architecture - CIO Magazine Jan 15,2004
And those services shouldn't have too fine a granularity—that defeats the goal of services, which is to function at a higher, business-process level.
The services are loosely coupled (meaning that an application doesn't have to know the technical details of another application in order to talk to it), have well-defined, platform-independent interfaces, and are reusable.
Buskard, on the other hand, has built his company's SOA without Web services, as none of his internal or external customers are asking for them at this point (though he's keeping his ear to the ground in case they do later on).
www.cio.com /archive/011504/soa.html   (168 words)

  
 IBM Software: Solutions: Web services by IBM: Overview
The first level in the service oriented architecture adoption path is creating services from tasks contained in new or existing applications.
A Service Oriented Architecture can be adopted at a number of different levels.
This level involves integrating services across multiple applications inside and outside the enterprise for a business objective.
www-306.ibm.com /software/solutions/webservices   (168 words)

  
 Agilense: Solutions: SOA Transformation
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) offers new heights in flexibility, efficiency, and business-value creation opportunity.
Enterprises will be heavily reliant on EA to assist in the determination of what elements of the enterprise will become services, and how those services are enabled with SOA based technology.
In order to leverage SOA, the enterprise must be organized and managed from a service perspective.
www.agilense.com /s_soa.html   (168 words)

  
 How to identify, specify, and realize services for your SOA Highlights - WebServices.Org
Allocation of components and services to layers in the SOA is a key task that require the documentation and resolution of key architectural decisions that relate not only to the application architecture but to the technical operational architecture designed and used to support the SOA realization at runtime.
Service-oriented modeling is a service-oriented analysis and design ( SOAD) process for modeling, analyzing, designing, and producing a SOA that aligns with business analysis, processes, and goals.
Services should ideally be governed by declarative policies and thus support a dynamically re-configurable architectural style.
www.webservices.org /index.php/ws/content/view/full/55047   (168 words)

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