Spatial Representations and Spatial Data Infrastructures

If you are not familiar with the concept and basic mechanisms of Service-oriented Architectures (SoA), it is suggested you start with this tutorial.

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• Service-Oriented Architecture
• - Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) (Part 1 of 2)https://www.tutorialspoint.com/soa/index.htm
• Service-oriented Architectures (SoA) tutorial
• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/webservices/what_are_web_services.htm What are Web Services?
• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/webservices/web_services_architecture.htm - Web Services - Architecture
• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/xml/ XML Tutorial
• Service Oriented Architecture (explains Interoperability, scalability, reusability)