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 fact, SOA also utilizes client-servier architecture. In addition, SOA is a way to design your software. Suppose that your application can break into simple and independent tasks like search a book, add new book, recommend a book according to user preference and so forth. If you consider a service (an API) for each of task, actually, you are using SOA. The advantage of this architecture is doesn't matter you're building a web app or mobile app, you only need the developed aforementioned services (APIs).