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In almost every significant SOA deployment, a few services have advanced requirements that force those services to intelligently manage the data that they use. A fault-tolerant service might be deployed on a cluster of machines, which means that the instances of the service must share data across several machines. A high-performance service might use in-memory caching to achieve fast response time. An aggregation service might retrieve or update data from multiple sources, transform that data into a standard representation, and integrate the resulting data in real-time. For these kinds of services, the data management infrastructure can significantly reduce development effort and deployment risks. In a SOA, services act as the building blocks for implementing business processes. Each service, hereafter called a functional service, offers a set of operations. The i... (more)