SOA is a compelling technique for developing software applications that best align with business models. However, SOA increases the level of cooperation and coordination required between business and information technology (IT), as well as among IT departments and teams. This cooperation and coordination is provided by SOA governance, which covers the tasks and processes for [...]

In raw terms, a service refers to a modular and self-contained piece of software, which has a well-defined functionality expressed in abstract terms independent of the underlying implementation that is accessible at a network point. Basically, any implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture has three fundamental roles: Service provider, Service requester, and Service registry and three fundamental [...]