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Introduction
    Overview
    Service Inventory Blueprints
    Service-Oriented Analysis
    Service-Oriented Design

Service Models
    Service Layers
    Entity Services
    Task Services
    Utility Services

Delivery Processes
    Top Down vs. Bottom Up
    The Inventory Analysis
Cycle (Part I)
    The Inventory Analysis
Cycle (Part II)
    The Inventory Analysis
Cycle (Part III)
    Choosing a Delivery Strategy

The Service-Oriented
Analysis Process
    Process Overview
    Information Gathering Steps
    Service Modeling Process (Part I)
    Service Modeling Process (Part II)

Service-Oriented
Design Processes
    Process Overview
    Design Processes and
Service Models
    Design Processes and Service-Orientation

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Introduction

Overview

This first section introduces some fundamental parts of a typical service-oriented computing platform, including:
Service Inventory Blueprints
Service-Oriented Analysis
Service-Oriented Design
For those of you who already read through www.whatissoa.com, you can skip these introductory pages.

The Service Models section then establishes what service models and service layers are and describes each of the four primary service model classifications:
Entity
Task
Orchestrated Task
Utility
Up next is the Delivery Processes section that delves into comparison of top-down and bottom up approaches and provides further details about the important Inventory Analysis Cycle.

The Service-Oriented Analysis Process part that follows explains why this process is so important to realizing a quality Service Inventory Blueprint and how its Service Modeling sub-process produces the service candidates that populate this blueprint.

Finally, the section dedicated to Service-Oriented Design Processes explains how different design processes exist for services based on different service models, and concludes this methodology overview by showing how service design processes are affected by the application of service-orientation design principles.

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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