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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Abbreviations / Acronyms / Synonyms:

SOA

Definitions:

  A collection of services. These services communicate with each other. The communication can involve either simple data passing or it could involve two or more services coordinating some activity.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-95 from Open Grid Services Architecture Glossary of Terms

  A set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functions that are built as software components (i.e., discrete pieces of code and/or data structures) that can be reused for different purposes.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 under service-oriented architecture