Web services approach to a service-oriented architecture

You can use web services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment.

You can use web services to implement a SOA. A major focus of web services is to make functional building blocks accessible over standard Internet protocols that are independent from platforms and programming languages. These services can be new applications or just wrapped around existing legacy systems to make them network-enabled. A service can rely on another service to achieve its goals.

Each SOA building block can assume one or more of three roles: Service-oriented architecture.

Characteristics of the SOA:

The presented SOA illustrates a loose coupling between the participants, which provides greater flexibility in the following ways:

Properties of a service-oriented architecture:

The service-oriented architecture offers the following properties:
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