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SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA)

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a stage in the evolution of application


development and/or integration. It defines a way to make software components reusable
using the interfaces.
Formally, SOA is an architectural approach in which applications make use of services
available in the network. In this architecture, services are provided to form applications,
through a network call over the internet. It uses common communication standards to
speed up and streamline the service integrations in applications. Each service in SOA
is a complete business function in itself. The services are published in such a way that
it makes it easy for the developers to assemble their apps using those services.
NOTE THAT SOA IS DIFFERENT FROM MICROSERVICE
ARCHITECTURE.
• SOA allows users to combine a large number of facilities from existing services to
form applications.
• SOA encompasses a set of design principles that structure system development and
provide means for integrating components into a coherent and decentralized system.
• SOA-based computing packages functionalities into a set of interoperable services,
which can be integrated into different software systems belonging to separate
business domains.
THERE ARE TWO MAJOR ROLES WITHIN SERVICE-ORIENTED
ARCHITECTURE:

1. Service provider: The service provider is the maintainer of the service and the
organization that makes available one or more services for others to use. To
advertise services, the provider can publish them in a registry, together with a
service contract that specifies the nature of the service, how to use it, the
requirements for the service, and the fees charged.
2. Service consumer: The service consumer can locate the service metadata in the
registry and develop the required client components to bind and use the service.
Services might aggregate information and data retrieved from other services or create
workflows of services to satisfy the request of a given service consumer. This practice
is known as service orchestration Another important interaction pattern is service
choreography, which is the coordinated interaction of services without a single point of
control.
COMPONENTS OF SOA:

GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF SOA:


1. Standardized service contract: Specified through one or more service description
documents.
2. Loose coupling: Services are designed as self-contained components, maintain
relationships that minimize dependencies on other services.
3. Abstraction: A service is completely defined by service contracts and description
documents. They hide their logic, which is encapsulated within their
implementation.
4. Reusability: Designed as components, services can be reused more effectively, thus
reducing development time and the associated costs.
5. Autonomy: Services have control over the logic they encapsulate and, from a
service consumer point of view, there is no need to know about their
implementation.
6. Discoverability: Services are defined by description documents that constitute
supplemental metadata through which they can be effectively discovered. Service
discovery provides an effective means for utilizing third-party resources.
7. Composability: Using services as building blocks, sophisticated and complex
operations can be implemented. Service orchestration and choreography provide a
solid support for composing services and achieving business goals.

ADVANTAGES OF SOA:
• Service reusability: In SOA, applications are made from existing services. Thus,
services can be reused to make many applications.
• Easy maintenance: As services are independent of each other they can be updated
and modified easily without affecting other services.
• Platform independent: SOA allows making a complex application by combining
services picked from different sources, independent of the platform.
• Availability: SOA facilities are easily available to anyone on request.
• Reliability: SOA applications are more reliable because it is easy to debug small
services rather than huge codes
• Scalability: Services can run on different servers within an environment, this
increases scalability
DISADVANTAGES OF SOA:
• High overhead: A validation of input parameters of services is done whenever
services interact this decreases performance as it increases load and response time.
• High investment: A huge initial investment is required for SOA.
• Complex service management: When services interact, they exchange messages to
tasks. the number of messages may go in millions. It becomes a cumbersome task
to handle a large number of messages.
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF SOA:
SOA is used in many ways around us whether it is mentioned or not.
• SOA infrastructure is used by many armies and air forces to deploy situational
awareness systems.
• SOA is used to improve healthcare delivery.
• Nowadays many apps are games and they use inbuilt functions to run. For example,
an app might need GPS so it uses the inbuilt GPS functions of the device. This is
SOA in mobile solutions.
• SOA helps maintain museums a virtualized storage pool for their information and
content.

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