Introduction to Service-Oriented Architecture

While using Web services allows you to achieve interoperability across applications built on different platforms with different languages, applying service-oriented concepts and principles when building applications based on using Web services can help you create robust, standards-based, interoperable SOA solutions.

It is interesting to note that Service-Oriented Architecture, while providing architectural foundation for building service-oriented solutions, is not tied to a concrete technology or technology set. In contrast, it may be implemented with various technologies, such as DCOM, CORBA, or Web Services. However, only the Web Services technology set is currentlythe primary way to put SOA into practice.