Service Oriented Architecture a Promise to the Future

Abstract

Service-oriented architecture has had a great impact on the business world. Its novelty is the different approach, which consists of defining reusable services and then building applications by loosely coupling the services in a four-layered architecture. This article describes the early difficulties of understanding and implementing the new architecture, and the evolution, as companies are more and more discovering the advantages of this new concept, alongside the appearance of dedicated solutions provided by specialized software firms. We will closely analyze the progress so far and show future directions of development, like the manufacturing industry, where SOA hasn’t even been taken into consideration so far.