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		geezerjay on April 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SOA and the Tar Pit of Irrelevancy (2009) > The S was meant to be service as in windows service but it was co-opted to be service as in web service. That assertion makes no sense as SOA is a software architecture approach and the communication between services has no impact on the system's architecture.

flukus on April 17, 2019 [–]

Communication between services has a huge impact on system architecture. A web service is an RPC mechanism, whether it's SOAP, REST, CORBA or whatever, it's nothing new and didn't need a new name. SOA was supposed to be message driven, usually through an ESB or something similar, MSMQ was popular at the time.

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