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| | 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. |
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