What is ISO/IEC 18384-1 - Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA RA) about?
ISO/IEC 18384-1 establishes vocabulary, guidelines, and general technical principles underlying service-oriented architecture (SOA), including principles relating to functional design, performance, development, deployment, and management.
Who is ISO/IEC 18384-1 - Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA RA) for?
ISO/IEC 18384-1 on Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA RA) is useful for:
- Information technology industry
- SOA designers and architects
- Service providers and technical personnel
Why should you use ISO/IEC 18384-1 - Reference Architecture for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA RA)?
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style in which business and IT systems are designed in terms of services available at an interface and the outcomes of these services. A service is a logical representation of a set of activities that have specified outcomes, is self-contained, and it may be composed of other services but consumers of the service need not be aware of any internal structure.
SOA takes “service” as its basic element to constitute and integrate information systems so that they are suitable for a variety of solution requirements. SOA enables interactions between businesses without needing to specify aspects of any particular business domain. Using the SOA architectural style can improve the efficiency of developing information systems, and integrating and reusing IT resources.
In addition, using the SOA architectural style can help realize agile and rapid response of information systems to ever-changing business needs.
ISO/IEC 18384-1 describes a single set of SOA technical principles, specific norms, and standards for the worldwide market to help remove confusion about SOA and improve the standardization and quality of solutions.
ISO/IEC 18384-1 presents and explains basic SOA concepts. ISO/IEC 18384-1 gives definitions for terms that are used in ISO/IEC 18384 with specific meanings that may differ or be more precise than the definitions of those terms found in major English language dictionaries. The terms defined here are used in a unique fashion for SOA. Terms used in their normal English sense are not redefined.
