Select a Pattern Agnostic Capability Agnostic Context Agnostic Sub-Controller Asynchronous Queuing Atomic Service Transaction Brokered Authentication Canonical Expression Canonical Protocol Canonical Resources Canonical Schema Canonical Schema Bus Canonical Versioning Capability Composition Capability Recomposition Compatible Change Compensating Service Transaction Composition Autonomy Concurrent Contracts Contract Centralization Contract Denormalization Cross-Domain Utility Layer Data Confidentiality Data Format Transformation Data Model Transformation Data Origin Authentication Decomposed Capability Decoupled Contract Direct Authentication Distributed Capability Domain Inventory Dual Protocols Enterprise Inventory Enterprise Service Bus Entity Abstraction Event-Driven Messaging Exception Shielding Federated Endpoint Layer File Gateway Functional Decomposition Intermediate Routing Inventory Endpoint Legacy Wrapper Logic Centralization Message Screening Messaging Metadata Metadata Centralization Multi-Channel Endpoint Non-Agnostic Context Official Endpoint Orchestration Partial State Deferral Partial Validation Policy Centralization Process Abstraction Process Centralization Protocol Bridging Proxy Capability Redundant Implementation Reliable Messaging Rules Centralization Schema Centralization Service Agent Service Broker Service Callback Service Data Replication Service Decomposition Service Encapsulation Service Facade Service Grid Service Instance Routing Service Layers Service Messaging Service Normalization Service Perimeter Guard Service Refactoring State Messaging State Repository Stateful Services Termination Notification Three-Layer Inventory Trusted Subsystem UI Mediator Utility Abstraction Validation Abstraction Version Identification Overview     History     Acknowledgements     Podcasts     Notification Form     Feedback Form     Press Release #1     Press Release #2     Press Release #3 Master SOA Design Pattern Catalog     Master Pattern List (alphabetical)     Master Pattern List (by category)     Master Pattern List with Page Numbers (PDF)     Master Pattern List (Text)     Pattern Notation     Pattern Profiles     Symbol Legend     Pattern Contribution Form SOA Candidate Patterns     SOA Patterns Review Committee     Candidate Patterns Overview     Candidate Patterns List     Candidate Pattern Contribution Form     Candidate Pattern Feedback Form     SOA Pattern Template Design Pattern Basics     What's a Design Pattern?     What's a Design Pattern Language?     What's a Compound Pattern? 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Application A new agnostic service is created or a task service is appended with an agnostic sub-controller capability. Impacts The addition of a cross-entity, agnostic service can increase the size and complexity of compositions and the abstraction of agnostic cross-entity logic can violate modeling and design standards established by Service Layers. Principles Service Reusability, Service Composability Architecture Composition, Service A traditional, single-purpose composition is often configured in a two-tier hierarchy, with all of the composition logic residing in the parent task service. Alternatively, the composition can be structured into additional tiers so that the composition is comprised of a parent controller service and one or more nested compositions represented by sub-controller services. These nested compositions may be necessary to carry out the parent task, but individually they can also provide logic that can be used independently to automate a smaller task, or they may have logic that can be used to automate other larger tasks. Either way, they can be structured to represent and abstract agnostic logic for reuse purposes. Related Patterns in This Catalog Agnostic Context (Erl), Contract Centralization (Erl), Entity Abstraction (Erl), Logic Centralization (Erl), Metadata Centralization (Erl), Process Abstraction (Erl), Process Centralization (Erl), Service Facade (Erl), Utility Abstraction (Erl) Related Service-Oriented Computing Goals Increased ROI, Reduced IT Burden This page contains excerpts from: SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl Foreword by Grady Booch With contributions from David Chappell, Jason Hogg, Anish Karmarkar, Mark Little, David Orchard, Satadru Roy, Thomas Rischbeck, Arnaud Simon, Clemens Utschig, Dennis Wisnosky, and others. 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