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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an approach to the architecture of information systems based on independently managed loosely-coupled services that can be discovered and invoked, regardless of their underlying implementation, via a relatively small set of well-defined messages passing interfaces. SOA emphasizes separation of services from applications, which are built by combining the services. In this sense it is a complement of grid approaches, which focus on virtualization of resources and mapping of resources to specific implementations.
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SOA has emerged as the leading approach to cyberinfrastructure development in several large earth sciences projects aimed at creating a domain environment that integrates databases, research tools and software codes developed on multiple platforms and maintained at distributed locations. In such a system, various online and desktop clients can access the same...
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Zaslavsky, I. (2017). Service-Oriented Architecture. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1199
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