http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ SOA <p><strong><span class="caps">SOA</span></strong> or <em>Service-Oriented Architecture</em> is an architectural approach to organizing software and other capabilities in the form of a network of services.</p> <p>The services may be rendered in the form of web services, and may comply with various standards and protocols including WS*, but this is not essential to the concept of <span class="caps">SOA</span>. What is essential to <span class="caps">SOA</span> is an architectural approach, which is what distinguishes <span class="caps">SOA</span> from <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/JBOWS"><span class="caps">JBOWS</span></a> (just a bunch of web services).</p> <p>Many computing vendors provide tools, platforms and other infrastructure to support <span class="caps">SOA</span>. However, <span class="caps">SOA</span> is more than just these products. <span class="caps">SOA</span> should be thought of mainly as the set of architectural and development practices needed to use these products effectively.</p> <p>Proponents of <span class="caps">SOA</span> believe that a loosely-coupled, layered service architecture can provide a combination of efficiency and flexibility.</p> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/Tuscany">Tuscany</a></li> <li><a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/HiveMind">HiveMind</a></li> <li><a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/Apache-Synapse">Apache Synapse</a></li> </ul> SOA or Service-Oriented Architecture is an architectural approach to organizing software and other capabilities in the form of a network of services. The services may be rendered in the form of web services, and may comply with various standards and protocols including WS*, but this is not essential to the concept of SOA. What is essential to SOA is an architectural approach, which is what distinguishes SOA from JBOWS (just a bunch of web services). Many computing vendors provide tools, pl http://swik.net/SOA Development soa webservices architecture service-oriented Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:58:37 -0700 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:06:38 -0800 http://swik.net/Dojo/del.icio.us+tag+dojo/RESTful+Web+Services+and+Comet/cc6nx Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:58:22 -0700 http://swik.net/AMQP/del.icio.us%2Ftag%2FAMQP/RabbitMQ+-+Open+Source+Enterprise+Messaging/cc6jk Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:59:38 -0700 http://swik.net/bpm/BPM+bookmarks+from+del.icio.us/Looking+at+BPM+as+SOA+platform/cc6dh Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:59:02 -0700 http://swik.net/Eclipse/del.icio.us%2Ftag%2Feclipse/STP+Project+-+SOA+Tools+Plataform+-+Wiki+Eclipse/cc5uk Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:59:52 -0700 http://swik.net/Eclipse/del.icio.us%2Ftag%2Feclipse/SOA+Tools+Platform+Project/cc5uj Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:59:52 -0700 http://swik.net/BPEL/del.icio.us+tag%2FBPEL/BPEL+Learning+Guide/cc5sk Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:56:36 -0700 http://swik.net/BPEL/del.icio.us+tag%2FBPEL/Choosing+between+Routing+and+Orchestration+in+an+ESB/cc5si Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:56:36 -0700 http://swik.net/BPEL/del.icio.us+tag%2FBPEL/SOA+%2B+EDA+%3D+Open+Source+ESB%3A+ServiceMix%28%2A%29/cc5sh Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:56:36 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/MAIN+-+Intalio%7CBPMS+Community+Edition/cc5ep Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:57:16 -0700 http://swik.net/XML/del.icio.us%2Ftag%2Fxml/ADO.NET+Data+Services/cc49x Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:59:51 -0700 http://swik.net/RIA/del.icio.us%2Ftag%2FRIA/Appcelerator/cc49u A framework for rich internet applications by Marc Fleury Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:59:50 -0700 http://swik.net/bpm/BPM+bookmarks+from+del.icio.us/IT-eye+%22+Nieuwsberichten/cc4r3 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:59:59 -0700 http://swik.net/bpm/BPM+bookmarks+from+del.icio.us/Intalio%2C+Leader+in+Open+Source+BPMS/cc4j8 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:30 -0700 http://swik.net/bpm/BPM+bookmarks+from+del.icio.us/Webcast%3A+SOA+and+BPM%3A+Aligning+your+business+needs+with+your+architecture/cc4cx Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:59:39 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/del.icio.us%2Fnetwork%2Fjey/%5Bfrom+swwsman%5D+Business+analyst+role+key+in+SOA+software+development+projects/cc4cv Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:59:39 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/del.icio.us%2Fnetwork%2Fjey/%5Bfrom+swwsman%5D+ZapThink+%3A%3A+Research+-+The+Business+Analyst+vs.+the+Enterprise+Architect/cc4cu Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:59:39 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/del.icio.us%2Fnetwork%2Fjey/%5Bfrom+swwsman%5D+Do+you+need+a+VP+of+%27Enterprise+Architecture+Revolution%3F%27+%7CReal+World+SOA+%7C+David+Linthicum+%7C+InfoWorld/cc4ct Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:59:39 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/del.icio.us%2Fnetwork%2Fjey/%5Bfrom+swwsman%5D+Don%27t+Be+Fooled+by+Low+SOA+Consultant+Bids+-+Mergers+and+Integrations/cc4cs Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:59:39 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/del.icio.us%2Fnetwork%2Fjey/%5Bfrom+swwsman%5D+ZapThink+%3A%3A+Research+-+The+Great+SOA+Consultant+Squeeze/cc4cr Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:59:39 -0700 http://swik.net/GlassFish/del.icio.us%2Ftag%2Fglassfish/WSJ+Readers%27+Choice+Awards/cc388 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:52:02 -0700 http://swik.net/XML/del.icio.us%2Ftag%2Fxml/Don%27t+let+Xml+be+your+API+%22+Codemate/cc3ru It’s interesting to see how many hours java developers spend these days writing Xmls. I can hardly imagine writing java server-side applications without a single xml document nowadays. All those configuration files, deployment descriptors, schema files, mappings, etc. Has anybody tried to count those hours? 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