uCosminexus Application Server Overview

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7.1 What is SOA?

Business environments are always dynamically transforming due to factors such as globalization, deregulation, M&A, and TOB. Consequently, enterprises must respond quickly and flexibly to environment transformations, and therefore, the need to change their information systems in a timely manner has increased. At the same time, however, the number of enterprises having IT infrastructures that cannot quickly adapt to business environment transformations is increasing.

In this way, IT has become more closely related to business, and therefore, information systems require an architecture that can quickly and flexibly adapt to transformations in business environments. Here enters Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

SOA is the technique and concept of creating business-required functionality as reusable services, and then combining the services to build a system. Moreover, to realize business, SOA uses a 'business process' that regulates the type and order of services to be invoked , thus making it easier to add, change, or re-organize services.

The following are the objectives of SOA: