Service-oriented architecture (SOA) - XML processing

XML modeling is not confined to data alone. Since its standardization in early 1998, XML (see [H 7 148][H 3 500][H 3 502] ) has been adopted to model data processing itself. On the basis of these models, other more elaborate XML models have been built to complement the technical infrastructure of SOA architecture. Documents and business processes, the first fields of application of SOA (Services Oriented Architecture), are now systematically represented in XML. These representations call on specialized XML dialects, often implemented in the context of Web services infrastructure. (see "From XML to enterprise Web services" [H 2 910] ).

This article follows on from :

• "SOA Architecture. XML Modeling" [H 6 004] ;

• "SOA Architecture. XML Infrastructure" [H 6 005] .