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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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Service Abstraction

Service Abstraction is one of eight design principles that is part of the service-orientation design paradigm.

The official definition for this principle states the following:

"Service contracts only contain essential information and information about services is limited to what is published in service contracts."

Common concepts and terms associated with the application of this principle include:

• technology information abstraction

• functional abstraction

• programmatic logic abstraction

• quality of service abstraction

• information hiding

• open access

• controlled access

• no access

• contract content optimization

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See also:

- service contract

- design principle

- Service Loose Coupling

- service-orientation

- Standardized Service Contract

The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
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