Understand Service Applications
Service applications in SharePoint 2010 are a set of independent processes that allow for both flexibility and scalability in farm architecture. Sometimes referred to as shared services, each application provides specific functionality—such as data connectivity or centralized metadata—to the SharePoint farm. Administrators can create one instance of a service and share it across the entire farm or create multiple instances to partition information to different web applications in the farm.
Service applications take the place of the Shared Service Provider that was found in the SharePoint 2007 architectural model, extending the concept of supporting services by providing administrators with more granular configuration ...
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