Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is rapidly becoming the new standard
for today's enterprise. SOA can enable great agility, productivity and
cost savings, but not if it is implemented with complex, closed and
expensive enterprise platforms. The best way is to implement it in
Simpler, Open and Affordable manner. The main purpose of this thesis is
to identify some of the core characteristics of SOA and explain how they
are manifested in actual technologies that can be used in a cost
effective way in an enterprise.