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SOA Made Simple

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849684163
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

SOA Made Simple
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Understanding the Problem FREE CHAPTER 2. The Solution 3. Service Identification and Design 4. Classification of Services 5. The SOA Platform 6. Solution Architectures 7. Creating a Roadmap, How to Spend Your Money and When? 8. Life Cycle Management 9. Pick your Battles 10. Methodologies and SOA Index

Process services


Process services are services that use other services to execute their flow, like composite services. However, they take longer to complete and involve multiple activities and transactions. Process services invoke automated and human steps. The logic to combine these operations is more complex and contains more conditional logic than in composite services.

Examples of process services are invoice handling, the on boarding of new employees, a mortgage service, and so on.

The difference between process services and composite services is somewhat of a grey area. The main differentiators between the two types of services are:

  • Duration: Process services are long-running processes that can take hours, days, weeks, or even longer, while composite services are short-lived services that take at most a couple of minutes to complete. A mortgage process that includes preparation, application, and underwriting, for example, can take weeks.

  • Transactions: Process services can span multiple...

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