This glossary supports the following titles:

SOA Governance

SOA with .NET & Azure


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: Principles, Patterns & Constraints
Next Generation SOA: A Real-World Guide to Modern Service-Oriented Computing
SOA with Java
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.

For more information, visit: www.soacp.com
and
www.soaschool.com


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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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