Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-An Introduction

In recent times, the term Service Oriented Architecture or the acroymn SOA has become a prominent buzzword in the IT landscape. The IT architecture has been in a constant state of evolution from the early monolithic mainframes, to client server, distributed component architecture and 3 to n tier architecture. The strategic IT vision began with complex object frameworks, moved on to touchy client-server systems, followed by simple three-tier architectures and ended up in a tangle of distributed computing.