Key Points
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Service-oriented architecture is an approach to software engineering where reusable, standardized services are the basic building blocks for application systems.
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Services may be implemented within a service-oriented architecture using a set of XML-based web service standards. These include standards for service communication, interface definition, and service enactment in workflows.
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Alternatively, a RESTful architecture may be used, which is based on resources and standard operations on these resources. A RESTful approach uses the http and https protocols for service communication and maps operations on the standard http verbs POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE.
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Services may be classified as utility services that provide a general-purpose ...
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