Originally posted by Lasse Koskela:
I'm not sure about the "official" definition for a service-oriented architecture, but in my opinion the externalized description and language independence are not requirements for being called a SOA. For example, a system built on top of Jini services (using RMI as the transport, for example) is just as much a SOA as would be the same system built on top of Web Services (using HTTP/SOAP as the transport).
I'm not sure about the *official* definition eather.
I'm wondering were we could find a definition from a SOA authority....
DOES SOA belong to some authority ???
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