A Survey on Service Oriented Architecture in Remote Collaboration Systems

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an evolutionary step in enterprise application integration providing automation capabilities by integrating disparate systems with each other. It acts as a bridge between existing systems which runs on legacy applications with newer applications running on most modern technologies. It is typically an architectural pattern in which components provide loosely integrated suite of services to other components over a communication medium. It uses a wide variety of implementation platforms. One of the main advantages and the reason SOA is easily adapted in the industry is because it is based on an agile mode of development and deployment, hence changes to the applications and processes will not impact the smooth functioning of the system. The benefits of SOA has been adapted in many of the business domains. Remote collaboration with mobile devices is one such area where the benefits of SOA can be made use of. We present a survey of researches conducted on remote collaboration using SOA.