<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7b01c71c-407b-4495-8068-8c15dd7a759c/826849C4-B96D-4D6F-ADBB-9C169961E69F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Service-oriented_architecture&oldid=224829782" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Service-oriented_architecture&oldid=224829782" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Service-oriented_architecture&oldid=224829782"><P><B>Services-Oriented Architecture</B> (<B>SOA</B>) is a <A title="Software architecture" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_architecture">software architecture</A> where functionality is grouped around <A title="Business process" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process">business processes</A> and packaged as interoperable <A title="Service (systems architecture)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_%28systems_architecture%29"><I>services</I></A>. SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows different applications to exchange data with one another as they participate in business processes. The aim is a <I>loose coupling</I> of services with operating systems, programming languages and other technologies which underlie applications.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-0">[1]</A></SUP> SOA separates functions into distinct units, or services<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bell_1-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-Bell-1">[2]</A></SUP>, which are made accessible over a network in order that they can be combined and reused in the production of business applications.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Erl_2-0"><A title="" href="#cite_note-Erl-2">[3]</A></SUP> These services communicate with each other by passing data from one service to another, or by coordinating an activity between two or more services. SOA concepts are often seen as built upon, and evolving from older concepts of <A title="Distributed computing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing">distributed computing</A><SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Erl_2-1"><A title="" href="#cite_note-Erl-2">[3]</A></SUP><SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bell_1-1"><A title="" href="#cite_note-Bell-1">[2]</A></SUP> and modular programming.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/826849C4-B96D-4D6F-ADBB-9C169961E69F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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