Question

] Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA) are architectural patterns for the development of distributed systems that transforms resources into software services. Which of the two architecture is more suitable to develop RESTful web services? Briefly justify your selection.

Answer 1

For this particular case, we will choose the ROA, which actually describes the REST Style architecture.
The paradigms which are used by Resource oriented architecture are actually needed for REST-based applications.

Following are the guidelines which are focused by ROA.

1. Resources like image in a webpage.
2. URI's.
3. Representation of resources and the links between them.

So the SOA, service-oriented architecture is actually more general and thus in order to achieve the efficient and more robust output which is taken care in ROA which follows the above guidelines which are much needed for a REST application.
Thus we will choose ROA.

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