SOA Design Patterns in the Cloud

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software design approach in which an application consists of software services and  software service consumers. Some of the attributes of SOA being:

• Loose Coupling
• Contracts between service provider and service consumer
• Allows co working of multiple technologies

There may be  some  confusion in the air about the applicability of SOA in a Cloud  managed environment and whether  Cloud is the next generation of SOA, however SOA as a design approach is complimentary to the attributes of Cloud and together they further strengthen the delivery of services over the network.   This articles  explains some of the design patterns of SOA and their usage in a Cloud environment.

For the sake of case study, Oracle SOA 11g Suite is  used as the SOA development platform and Amazon EC2 Suite of products is used for the Cloud platform.

Read More of Srinivasan Sundara Rajan’s Blog Post