SOA Requirements and Implementation

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a paradigm for organizing and utilizing distributed capabilities that may be under the control of different ownership domains and implemented using various technology stacks. In general, entities (people and organizations) create capabilities to solve or support a solution for the problems they face in the course of their business. It is natural to think of one person’s needs being met by capabilities offered by someone else; or, in the world of distributed computing, one computer agent’s requirements being met by a computer agent belonging to a different owner. The term owner here may be used to denote different divisions of one business or perhaps unrelated entities in different countries.


There is not necessarily a one-to-one correlation between needs and capabilities; the granularity of needs and capabilities vary from fundamental to complex, and any given need may require a combination of numerous capabilities while any single capability may address more than one need. One perceived value of SOA is that it provides a powerful framework for matching needs and capabilities and for combining capabilities to address those needs by leveraging other capabilities. One capability may be repurposed across a multitude of needs.


SOA is a “view” of architecture that focuses in on services as the action boundaries between the needs and capabilities in a manner conducive to service discovery and repurposing.

This white paper has been prepared to share ideas about data interaction patterns within SOA and to illustrate some common concepts with a service oriented environment. It is based on input provided by a number of people from different companies and is not considered the work of any one company. It is free to share, use, quote, and post wherever and however you want.


Service Oriented Architecture will likely remain the mainstay of technology platforms for the foreseeable future. It is our hope that the companies who have contributed to this will continue to write more on specialized patterns of SOA.

Kindly go through the entire white paper and I guarantee you that it would be of immence help to you.