What is SOA and why is it used?

SOA is an architectural style for building software applications that use services available in a network such as the web. It promotes loose coupling between software components so that they can be reused. Applications in SOA are built based on services.

What is a service in SOA?

What is a service in SOA? A service is a self-contained unit of software that performs a specific task. It has three components: an interface, a contract, and implementation.

What are the benefits of SOA?

Advantages of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

  • Reliability.
  • Location Independence.
  • Scalability.
  • Platform Independence.
  • Loosely Coupled.
  • Reusability.
  • Agility.
  • Easy Maintenance.

What is the benefits of SOA?

SOA enables the development of applications that are easier to handle and more secure, since it provides a common infrastructure and documentation to develop services, with the opportunity to add new features. Thanks to SOA, it is possible to minimise data loss, since it offers security and high availability.

How many layers are there in SOA?

The SOA Reference Architecture (SOA RA) has nine layers representing nine key clusters of considerations and responsibilities that typically emerge in the process of designing an SOA solution or defining an enterprise architecture standard.

Is microservices part of SOA?

SOA is monolithic in nature whereas Microservices is full-stack. SOA applications are built to perform numerous business tasks, but microservices are built to perform a single business task. SOA involves sharing data storage between services while in Microservices, each service can have independent data storage.

What is SOA VS API?

APIs (application programming interfaces) allow applications to communicate and transfer information. SOA (service oriented architecture) is an architectural design approach that provides services to components through a communication protocol over a network. So, SOA is essentially a design pattern.