Surfing the net for software engineering notes

ABSTRACT

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is one of the more popular buzzwords floating around the software engineering community these days. But what the heck is a Service Oriented Architecture? In various places I have seen SOA called an approach to software design, a reuse strategy, a development methodology, or a design pattern. Can an SOA be used to describe an entire enterprise architecture or does SOA refer to a single application architecture? For example, the Federal Enterprise Architecture contains a service component model, implying that a complete enterprise architecture could be composed entirely of services. Finally, is an SOA an effective architecture for actually implementing software? We'll try to find web resources that can help answer these questions.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
        D.2.11 Software Architectures
            Subjects: Domain-specific architectures

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.0 General

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.1 Project and People Management

General Terms:
Theory