Editing Service-oriented architecture (section)

=== Web 2.0 ===
[[Tim O'Reilly]] coined the term "[[Web 2.0]]" to describe a perceived, quickly growing set of web-based applications.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html |title=What Is Web 2.0 |access-date=June 10, 2008 |publisher=Tim O'Reilly |date=September 30, 2005 }}</ref> A topic that has experienced extensive coverage involves the relationship between Web 2.0 and service-oriented architectures.{{Which|date=October 2016}}

SOA is the philosophy of encapsulating application logic in services with a uniformly defined interface and making these publicly available via discovery mechanisms. The notion of complexity-hiding and reuse, but also the concept of loosely coupling services has inspired researchers to elaborate on similarities between the two philosophies, SOA and Web 2.0, and their respective applications. Some argue Web 2.0 and SOA have significantly different elements and thus can not be regarded "parallel philosophies", whereas others consider the two concepts as complementary and regard Web 2.0 as the global SOA.<ref name="sch">{{cite journal | url=http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/Publikationen/37270 | title=Web 2.0 and SOA: Converging Concepts Enabling the Internet of Services | journal=IT Professional | volume=9 | issue=3 | pages=36–41 | access-date=February 23, 2008 | author1=Christoph Schroth | author2=Till Janner | year=2007 | doi=10.1109/MITP.2007.60 | s2cid=2859262 | archive-date=December 3, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203163749/https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/Publikationen/37270 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

The philosophies of Web 2.0 and SOA serve different user needs and thus expose differences with respect to the design and also the technologies used in real-world applications. However, {{As of|2008|lc=y}}, use-cases demonstrated the potential of combining technologies and principles of both Web 2.0 and SOA.<ref name="sch" />