What is SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)?

Question

Call me a troll if you want, but I\'m serious: how exactly is the new SOA trend any different than the client-service architecture that I was building 15 years ago?

Answer 1

In reality, SOA is a collection of well-defined services. Basically SOA use loosely coupled service to get the desire result easily. Implementation details of a service are hidden from the client/consumer so any change in the implementation doesn’t affect the service until the contract between them is change. Service providers are components that execute some business logic based on predetermined inputs and outputs, and expose this functionality through an SOA implementation. This allows systems based on SOA to respond more quickly and cost effectively for the business. The main difference between component and SOA is that, SOA provide a open standards message which is not specific to any programming language or platform. As a result, you can achieve a high degree of loose coupling and interoperability across platforms and technologies. In a traditional client-server world, the provider will be a server and the consumer will be a client.You can read more about SOA here :Service Oriented architecture (SOA)