By: Thomas Erl, Author of “Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design”
Acclaimed author Thomas Erl shares his insights into the service-orientation design paradigm by providing excerpts from his second SOA book “Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design”, supplemented with additional commentary.
In the previous article we established the service-orientation design paradigm as currently providing us with the following eight common principles:
•services share a formal contract
•services are loosely coupled
•services abstract underlying logic
•services are reusable