This glossary supports the following titles:
SOA: Principles of Service Design (ISBN: 01323 44823, Prentice Hall)
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design (ISBN: 0131858580, Prentice Hall)
Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML & Web Services (ISBN: 0131 428985, Prentice Hall)
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A service is a unit of solution logic to which service-orientation has been applied to a meaningful extent. It is the application of service-orientation design principles that distinguish a unit of logic as a service compared to units of logic that may exist only as objects or components.
Within SOA projects, a service is commonly conceptualized during the service-oriented analysis phase, at which time it is referred to as a service candidate.
Subsequent service-oriented design and development stages implement a service as a physically independent software program with specific design characteristics that support the attainment of the strategic goals associated with service-oriented computing.
Each service is assigned its own distinct functional context and is comprised of a set of capabilities related to this context. Therefore, a service can be considered a container of capabilities associated with a common purpose (or functional context).
See also:
- component
- service agent
- service candidate
- service capability
- service method
- service model
- service operation
- service-orientation
- Web service
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