Service-Oriented Architecture

Kind: style

Layer: Structural Core

Aliases: SOA

Record: architecture:service-oriented-architecture

Severity: contextual

Scope: application, service, integration

Canonical: Ontology

A convention of exposing each business capability as a service governed by a published contract.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Pipes and Filters and before Space-Based Architecture.

Requires

• Service Contract

Reinforces

• Autonomy
• Low Coupling

Enables

• Contract-Governed Service Reuse

Conflicts with

• Shared Monolithic Application

In tension with

• Operational Overhead

Tensions

• Service-Oriented Architecture / Operational Overhead

Violated by

• Shared Monolithic Application

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Codebase / System Architecture Styles

Linked from

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Core Modular Design
• Codebase / System Architecture Styles
• Quality Attributes
• Severity levels
• The resolutions