Talk:Service-oriented architecture

message: This sentence needs some explaining, if it's even accurate:  One can consider SOA a continuum, as opposed to distributed computing or modular programming. Huh? Because up to this point, SOA has been described exactly like a form of distributed computing. Is there a reference? Because it makes no sense. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 21:07, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I went through the article's history and found out that, in it's younger days, the sentence read like this: SOA can be seen in a continuum, from older concepts of distributed computing and modular programming, through to current practices of mashups, SaaS, and Cloud Computing (which some see as the offspring of SOA). (Emphasis added.) And yes, it had references. (This comes from the version dated July 1, 2009) Needless to say, this alters the meaning. I put back the original sentence, altered slightly for clarity, complete with the original references. —MiguelMunoz (talk) 23:04, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Continuum? 

message: It seems there is some close relationship, if not equivalence, between SOA and Web services. Can someone clarify the relationship? --Kvng (talk) 15:09, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Relationship to [[Web service]]

message: I see in the paragraph "In a large network of computers SOA has the same role and duties as the traditional operating system on a single computer. Consequently SOA is designed in analogy to traditional multi-tasking operating systems like Windows, Unix, zOS etc." the attempt to make the SOA concept more understandable, however it is misleading: operating system processes are mandatory to run a computer and, as such, they always perform fundamental and centrally supervised operations, while SOA services are not necessarily in the network running. I suggest to suppress the quoted paragraph. Vittorioolivati (talk) 15:38, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  The analogy isn't even particularly accurate in my opinion.  --HighKing (talk) 14:26, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Does SOA have the same role and duties as the traditional operating system on a single computer?

message: A cited article "The Reason SOA Isn’t Delivering Sustainable Software" in "Criticism" section has a broken link, the only version I found on the web is http://soa.xxxxx.com/news/do-not-publishthe-reason-soa where xxxx is dzone, sice dzone.com is blacklisted by wikipedia  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.234.41.128 (talk) 18:42, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken Link

message: Apparently, a student in a class project has been assigned to this article.  Keep an eye on it.  See Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/North Carolina State University/Object Oriented Design and Development (Fall 2016). -- Gestrid (talk) 21:41, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warning 

message: The service mesh article specifically says its an infrastructures thing, which means it could serve a SOA, or something of the sorts. Snorkop (talk) 16:42, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in sentence does not agree with definition of service mesh 

message: In the first line it says: "In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design." Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that has a broader scope than just software engineering. It can be used in business architecture as well for example. In my opinion, this means that the concept is undesirably restricted to software development while it is about "a way of thinking".
Furthermore, the referenced source is not quoted correctly because it doesn't speak about 'discrete services instead of monolithic design'. It says: "Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that supports service orientation". It would be better to use that sentence, together with the correct quote "Service orientation is a way of thinking in terms of services and service-based development and the outcomes of services" a little further on.
Adgerrits (talk) 09:24, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition is not correct