Next Generation SOA: A Concise Introduction to Service Technology & Service-Orientation

Chapter 3. A Look at How Services are Defined and Composed

Basic Concepts

Breaking Down the Business Problem

Building Up the Service-Oriented Solution

This chapter provides a concise overview of what lies at the very core of the service-orientation paradigm and the service-oriented architectural model: the identification and aggregation of agnostic logic into reusable and composable units. These units represent the foundational moving parts that collectively define and enable service-oriented solutions. Understanding how they are realized and subsequently and repeatedly utilized is the most essential requirement to successfully benefiting from ...