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Decoupled Contract (Erl)

How can a service express its capabilities independently of its implementation?

Decoupled Contract

Problem

For a service to be positioned as an effective enterprise resource, it must be equipped with a technical contract that exists independently from its implementation yet still in alignment with other services.

Solution

The service contract is physically decoupled from its implementation.

Application

A service’s technical interface is physically separated and subject to relevant service-orientation design principles.

Impacts

Service functionality is limited to the feature-set of the decoupled contract medium.

Architecture

Service

Decoupled Contract: By decoupling the service contract, the service implementation can be evolved without directly impacting service consumers. This can increase the amount of refactoring opportunities and the range of potential consumer programs (and corresponding reuse).

By decoupling the service contract, the service implementation can be evolved without directly impacting service consumers. This can increase the amount of refactoring opportunities and the range of potential consumer programs (and corresponding reuse).


Module 7: Advanced SOA Design & Architecture with Services & Microservices

This pattern is covered in SOACP Module 7: Advanced SOA Design & Architecture with Services & Microservices.

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Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA

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Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA

by Thomas Erl, Anish Karmarkar, Priscilla Walmsley, Hugo Haas, Umit Yalcinalp, Canyang Kevin Liu, David Orchard, Andre Tost, James Pasley

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