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<h1> Introduction to Service-Oriented Architectures</h1> <p><strong>Connected Services Framework 3.0 SP1</strong></p> <p>When you create an application that is service-oriented, you&nbsp;can&nbsp;create composable,&nbsp;reusable XML Web services to&nbsp;perform various tasks for the application.&nbsp;Although this approach can be used to create any system or application, it has been most frequently used&nbsp;to create distributed applications. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables you to reuse existing XML Web services and create new Web services,&nbsp;even if they&nbsp;have been created by using different platforms and programming languages, without&nbsp;being concerned about&nbsp;how each service implements the action it performs. This&nbsp;means you&nbsp;can create powerful applications and systems that retain enough flexibility for you to add or remove services when&nbsp;the need arises.</p> <p>If you build applications by using SOA, you can&nbsp;also easily upgrade, version,&nbsp;and replace component services&nbsp;when your application and business needs evolve. Because you are not concerned about proprietary protocols or technologies,&nbsp;you can&nbsp;focus&nbsp;on how to&nbsp;make your applications available as&nbsp;XML Web services.</p> <p>SOA helps you to develop systems and applications that can save money&nbsp;in your IT budgets, because you&nbsp;can include Web services that are outside of your enterprise or domain of control&nbsp;and&nbsp;minimize&nbsp;the development of new components or services&nbsp;that perform particular tasks in your application.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>