Progress of Research on Service-Oriented Architecture

Recently,Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) is emerging as one of the primary research areas in software engineering and one of the key technologies to the integration of enterprise information system,development of distribute software system and tacking the mutative requirements.The history and main research aspects of SOA are summarized,and the recent research progress and application practices are introduced.A definition for SOA is brought up based on analyzing and comparing of several classical definitions about SOA.Based on analyzing and summarizing the main research aspects and content of SOA,directions of research on SOA are proposed and some disadvantages of current research on SOA are discussed.Finally,it is concluded with some significantly promising tendency about research on SOA.