15 Seconds : Developing a Simple Service Oriented Architecture

15 Seconds : Developing a Simple Service Oriented Architecture: "The basic premise of an SOA system is to decouple the applications from each other and hence the applications are autonomous in their own terms. Therefore when each of these different applications in an organization needs to integrate they would have to communicate their needs by a standard process. This communication is done via messages sent across as defined by the business rules. These messages are XML message though need not be necessarily since some systems could send non - XML messages. For the case of a simple SOA we would consider XML messages since it's more or less the de-facto form of communication today. "