1. SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
U. Jhashuva1
Asst. Prof
Dept. of CSE

2. SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern in computer software design in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network. The principles of service-orientation are independent of any vendor, product or technology. -WIKIPEDIA

3. SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
A service-oriented architecture is essentially a collection of services. These services communicate with each other. The communication can involve either simple data passing or it could involve two or more services coordinating some activity. Some means of connecting services to each other is needed. -Douglas K Barry

4. SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business-centric IT architectural approach that supports integrating your business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services. -IBM

5. SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a paradigm for organizing a set of capabilities, often distributed across the network and possibly under the control of different ownership domains. Kathryn B. Laskey1,* andKenneth Laskey2

6. LAYERED ARCHITECTURE FOR WEB SERVICES AND GRIDS
FIG : LAYERED ARCHITECTURE FOR WEB SERVICES AND GRIDS

7. REFERENCES
1. [1.4.Software Environments for Distributed and Cloud] Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of things.