SOA Glossary - service method

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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

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SOA Security: Practices, Patterns, and Technologies for Securing Services

SOA and Cloud Computing: Practices, Patterns, Technologies

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service method

When a service is implemented as a component, the functions or capabilities it exposes via the component�s technical interface are referred to as methods, a term that was popularized by object-orientation and component-based design approaches.

Because a component can be designed in accordance with service-orientation principles or alternative design paradigms, the term service method is used to indicate that the method is part of an actual service (a component to which service-orientation has been applied).

Note that traditional object-oriented class notations can be used even when designing service-oriented classes, as explained in Chapter 14 of "SOA: Principles of Service Design".