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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Service Discoverability

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Service Discoverability 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 supplemented with communicative meta data by which they can be effectively discovered and interpreted."

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

• design-time discovery

• runtime discovery

• functional meta data

• quality of service meta data

For more information, visit www.soaprinciples.com.

See also:

- service contract

- design principle

- Service Abstraction

- service-orientation

- Standardized Service Contract

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