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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 Composability

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

The official definition for this principle states the following:

"Services are effective composition participants, regardless of the size and complexity of the composition."

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

• primitive composition

• complex composition

• service activities

• composition controller

• composition sub-controller

• designated controller

• composition member

• composition initiator

• composition instance

• composition member capability

• point-to-point

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See also:

- complex composition

- composition controller

- composition controller capability

- composition initiator

- composition member

- composition member capability

- composition sub-controller

- design principle

- service activity

- service composition

- service-orientation

The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
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