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Process Centralization (Erl)
How can abstracted business process logic be centrally governed?
Problem
When business process logic is distributed across independent service implementations, it can be problematic to extend and evolve.
Solution
Logic representing numerous business processes can be deployed and governed from a central location.
Application
Middleware platforms generally provide the necessary orchestration technologies to apply this pattern.
Impacts
Significant infrastructure and architectural changes are imposed when the required middleware is introduced.
Principles
Service Autonomy, Service Statelessness, Service Composability
Architecture
Inventory, Composition
Task services can continue to be implemented as separate Web services, but as part of an orchestration platform their collective business process logic is centrally located and governed (resulting in “orchestrated” task services).
Related Patterns in This Catalog
Agnostic Sub-Controller, Canonical Resources, Capability Composition, Capability Recomposition, Non-Agnostic Context, Partial State Deferral, Process Abstraction, State Repository
Related Patterns in Other Catalogs
Related Service-Oriented Computing Goals
This pattern is covered in SOACP Module 7: Advanced SOA Design & Architecture with Services & Microservices.
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SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl
(ISBN: 0136135161, Hardcover, Full-Color, 400+ Illustrations, 865 pages)
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