What Is Service-Oriented Architecture?

It is not practical to build monolithic systems in current multinational enterprises. These systems often take many years to implement and usually address a narrow set of objectives. Today a business needs to be agile and adapt processes quickly, and SOA is a design principle that can help address this business need. SOA is a well-defined services, where each individual service can be modified independently of other services to help respond to the ever-evolving market conditions of a business.Unlike traditional point-to-point architectures, an SOA implementation comprises one or more loosely coupled and interoperable set of application services. Although some of these aspects might be similar to a component-based ...

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