SOA – What are the different types of “services”?

Welcome to the third part of the ongoing series of posts on Service Oriented Architecture(SOA). So far we have covered what SOA is and what do we understand by a service. Now let’s look at whether it is possible to categorize a “service“.

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.