Thinking of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a methodology of implementing IT solutions, rather than a technology, allows significant benefits to an enterprise that seeks to adapt to change. The concepts and designs behind SOA are not new, they are derived from distributed n-tier systems that have been adopted and are functioning well in most large enterprises all over the world. The nature of SOA mimics the model of offshore development where services are provided on demand for finite discrete parts of the whole. These units of service are atomic, created as single reusable units of logic that can be combined when required to fulfill business functionality.
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