Service Oriented Architecture or SOA is an architectural style or design encompassing a set of guidelines, rules or principles that suggests how a software application should be manifested as a service. SOA has emerged as integration architecture to create resilient applications to coordinate with each other and extend the process and execution boundaries across application.
The software service in the SOA is a network endpoint abiding by certain protocols and technology constraints required by SOA. Typically web services technology is used to enable the network endpoints as a software service. The key features of SOA are loose coupling, distributed, application autonomy, programming language agnosticism, data and communication standardization, interface standardization and heterogeneity. All of these key features are enablers for achieving an IT ecosystem which acts as a virtualization layer to support and map the enterprise business objectives to the IT process boundaries.
Web services is a technology specification which details the usage of protocols, communication layers, data standards, network standards, data parsing and binding specifications and conversion standards for a service endpoint. These specifications aid in defining the service interface, publishing the interface and discovering the interface using the standards specified.
Interface definition is achieved through a standard called Web Services Definition Language (WSDL). The WSDL Interface publishing and discovery happens using the communication protocol named Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The target for publishing is a standard named Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI). The publishing data and grammar is encoded using a markup language named eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Web services also proposes the Quality of Service (QoS) necessary across the web services stack supporting the transactions, security, messaging and addressing protocols for the service end points. Some of the other standards that are of interest are Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), Data Center Markup Language (DCML) and Web Services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF).
The software service in the SOA is a network endpoint abiding by certain protocols and technology constraints required by SOA. Typically web services technology is used to enable the network endpoints as a software service. The key features of SOA are loose coupling, distributed, application autonomy, programming language agnosticism, data and communication standardization, interface standardization and heterogeneity. All of these key features are enablers for achieving an IT ecosystem which acts as a virtualization layer to support and map the enterprise business objectives to the IT process boundaries.
Web services is a technology specification which details the usage of protocols, communication layers, data standards, network standards, data parsing and binding specifications and conversion standards for a service endpoint. These specifications aid in defining the service interface, publishing the interface and discovering the interface using the standards specified.
Interface definition is achieved through a standard called Web Services Definition Language (WSDL). The WSDL Interface publishing and discovery happens using the communication protocol named Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The target for publishing is a standard named Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI). The publishing data and grammar is encoded using a markup language named eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Web services also proposes the Quality of Service (QoS) necessary across the web services stack supporting the transactions, security, messaging and addressing protocols for the service end points. Some of the other standards that are of interest are Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), Data Center Markup Language (DCML) and Web Services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF).
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