Service Oriented Architecture

As organizations continue to seek ways to reduce costs while they simultaneously deliver more capabilities, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) enjoyed a substantial adoption increase in 2006. The idea of SOA departs significantly from that of object oriented programming (OOP), which strongly suggests that you should bind data and its processing together. SOA is an architectural style whose goal is to achieve loose coupling among interacting software agents. Essentially, SOA is a better way to develop software, by using the basic building blocks of services. A service-oriented architecture is essentially a collection of services. Service-Oriented Architecture underpins most modern web services.