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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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Standardized Service Contract

Standardized Service Contract 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 within the same service inventory are in compliance with the same contract design standards."

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

• functional service expression standardization

• data representation standardization

• data model standardization

• policy standardization

• "contract-first" development

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See also:

- Service Abstraction

- service contract

- service description document

- design principle

- Service Loose Coupling

- service-orientation

- service-oriented design

The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
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