Friday, July 11, 2008

SOA ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPLES

There are some well defined specific SOA architectural principles governing service design and service definition, namely:

  • Service encapsulation - Many web-services are consolidated to be used under the SOA Architecture. Often such services have not been planned to be under SOA.
  • Service loose coupling - Services maintain a relationship that minimizes dependencies and only requires that they maintain an awareness of each other
  • Service contract - Services adhere to a communications agreement, as defined collectively by one or more service description documents
  • Service abstraction - Beyond what is described in the service contract, services hide logic from the outside world
  • Service reusability - Logic is divided into services with the intention of promoting reuse
  • Service composability - Collections of services can be coordinated and assembled to form composite services
  • Service autonomy – Services have control over the logic they encapsulate
  • Service optimization – All else equal, high-quality services are generally considered preferable to low-quality ones
  • Service discoverability – Services are designed to be outwardly descriptive so that they can be found and accessed via available discovery mechanisms such as service repositories or directories

Further information about these principles can be found here.

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