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Introduction to
Service-Orientation
    Services (Part I)
    Services (Part II)
    The Service-Orientation
Design Paradigm
    Origins and Influences of Service-Orientation (Part I)
    Origins and Influences of Service-Orientation (Part II)

Service-Orientation
Design Principles
    Standardized Service Contracts
    Service Loose Coupling
    Service Abstraction
    Service Reusability
    Service Autonomy
    Service Statelessness
    Service Discoverability
    Service Composability
    Service-Orientation and Interoperability

Effects of Service-Orientation on the Enterprise
    Service-Orientation and the Concept of "Application"
    Service-Orientation and the Concept of "Integration"
    The Service Composition

Service-Orientation
in the Real World
    Life Before
Service-Orientation (Part I)
    Life Before
Service-Orientation (Part II)
    The Need for
Service-Orientation (Part I)
    The Need for
Service-Orientation (Part II)
    Challenges Introduced by Service-Orientation (Part I)
    Challenges Introduced by Service-Orientation (Part II)
    Additional Considerations

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Service-Orientation Design Principles

Service Reusability
Audio Podcast
The first four principles are discussed in the audio podcast Introduction to Service-Orientation Design Principles - Part 1


"Services contain and express agnostic logic and can be positioned as reusable enterprise resources."

Reuse is strongly emphasized within service-orientation; so much so, that it becomes a core part of typical service analysis and design processes, and also forms the basis for key service models. The advent of mature, non-proprietary service technology has provided the opportunity to maximize the reuse potential of multi-purpose logic on an unprecedented level.

The principle of Service Reusability emphasizes the positioning of services as enterprise resources with agnostic functional contexts. Numerous design considerations are raised to ensure that individual service capabilities are appropriately defined in relation to an agnostic service context, and to guarantee that they can facilitate the necessary reuse requirements.


Figure: When designing services for reuse, traditional application design approaches are married with techniques from the well established field of commercial product design.

Variations and levels of reuse and associated agnostic service models are covered in Chapter 9: Service Reusability (Commercial and Agnostic Design), along with a study of how commercial product design approaches have influenced this principle.

This page contains excerpts from:

SOA: Principles of Service Design
by Thomas Erl

ISBN: 0132344823, Prentice Hall/PearsonPTR, Hardcover
240+ Full Color Illustrations, 573 pages

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The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl
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