SOAP

SOA (Server-Oriented Architecture) is an architectural approach that make use of services available in network. It uses common communication standards to speed up and streamline the service integrations in applications.

Advantages

• Service Re-usability
• Improved Maintenance
• Scalability
• Availability
• Reliability

Disadvantages

• High cost and Overhead
• Complex Management
• Single point of Failure
• Performance Bottlenecks

Components

• Service consumer
• Service provider
• Service registry