SOA

looks like there’s a need something better for soa….

n. in computing, a service-oriented architecture (soa) is a flexible set of design principles used during the phases of systems development and integration. a deployed soa-based architecture will provide a loosely-integrated suite of services that can be used within multiple business domains.

soa also generally provides a way for consumers of services, such as web-based applications, to be aware of available soa-based services. for example, several disparate departments within a company may develop and deploy soa services in different implementation languages; their respective clients will benefit from a well understood, well defined interface to access them. xml is commonly used for interfacing with soa services, though this is not required.

service-orientation requires loose coupling of services with operating systems, and other technologies that underlie applications. soa separates functions into distinct units, or services, which developers make accessible over a network in order to allow users to combine and reuse them in the production of applications. these services and their corresponding consumers communicate with each other by p-ssing data in a well-defined, shared format, or by coordinating an activity between two or more services.
soa developers -ssociate individual soa objects by using orchestration. in the process of orchestration the developer -ssociates software functionality (the services) in a non-hierarchical arrangement using a software tool that contains a complete list of all available services, their characteristics, and the means to build an application utilizing these sources.