Service Oriented Architecture
Service-Oriented Architecture
Start of Authority
A set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functions that are built as software components (i.e., discrete pieces of code and/or data structures) that can be reused for different purposes.
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4
under Service-Oriented Architecture