An effective SOA model for developing efficient systems

Abstract

Service Oriented Architecture is an architectural paradigm and discipline that may be used to build infrastructures enabling those with needs (consumers) and those with capabilities (providers) to interact via services across disparate domains of technology and ownership. Services act as the core facilitator of electronic data interchanges yet require additional mechanisms in order to function. Services comprise intrinsically unassociated, loosely coupled units of functionality that have no calls to each other embedded in them. Instead of services embedding calls to each other in their source code, they use defined protocols that describe how one or more services can "talk" to each other. SOA may be used for business applications, or in government and the military. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.