Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture - SOA
In this Session I will explain briefly about Service Oriented Architecture - SOA . To understand the SOA, let assume we have a software called "Service Consumer" and it would like to communicate with another software called "Service Provider". Service Consumer will send a Service request which is a message to the Service Provider. Thereafter Service Provide will reply back with a Service Response to the Consumer. The flow is shown in the below figure. When the "Service Request" is received by the "Service Provider" , it will be process by the Service. A Service is a well defined function that does not depend on the state of the other services. The Service Consumer needs to know how to call this service ,i.e what parameter , what argument the Service is expecting and what kind of response the service would be sending back to the Consumer. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a solution to make two software communicate with each other...