This glossary supports the following titles:
SOA Design Patterns
Web Service Contract Design & Versioning for SOA
SOA Principles of Service Design
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
Modern SOA Infrastructure: Technology, Design, and Governance
SOA with REST
Next Generation SOA: A Real-World Guide to Modern Service-Oriented Computing
SOA with .NET & Azure
SOA with Java
SOA Governance
SOA Security: Practices, Patterns, and Technologies for Securing Services
SOA and Cloud Computing: Practices, Patterns, Technologies
This glossary also supports the SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) program.
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service
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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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