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Introduction to SOA Types & Design Patterns
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Read the article "Introducing SOA Design Patterns" from the June 2008 SOA World Magazine (High-Res PDF).
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PLEASE NOTE
The content on this page is from the first draft of the manuscript for the upcoming book "SOA Design Patterns" by Thomas Erl. This version of the manuscript was authored in September, 2007. Since then, the manuscript has undergone significant content and structural changes as a result of an industry-wide review in which hundreds of SOA practitioners participated in addition to SOA vendors and experts from the design patterns community.
You are welcome to use the information on this page for research purposes, but you should assume that most of it will change in the final release of the "SOA Design Patterns" book.
Note also, that as a result of an industry-wide call for participation from December 2007 to February 2008, over 30 new design patterns have been contributed to this book. As they become finalized and are incorporated by the author, concise descriptions will be published on this site, and full descriptions with examples will be made available in the final, printed book.
Due to the volume of new content and changes, the release of the "SOA Design Patterns" book has been postponed to December 15, 2008. To learn more about the book, visit www.soapatterns.com. To be notified of updates to this site, use the notification form.
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Master List of Patterns (alphabetical)

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Master List of Patterns (alphabetical)
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A list of all the design patterns, sorted alphabetically. Click on the pattern title to view the pattern description.


Agnostic Capability

How can multi-purpose service logic be made available in a consumable format?
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Agnostic Context

How can multi-purpose service logic be positioned as an effective enterprise resource?
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Agnostic Sub-Controller

How can agnostic, cross-entity composition logic be separated, reused, and governed independently?
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Asynchronous Queuing

How can a service and its consumers accommodate isolated failures and avoid unnecessarily locking resources?
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Business-Driven Context

How can a technology architecture be designed to remain in alignment with changing business goals and
requirements?
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Capability Composition

How can a service capability be used to solve a problem that requires logic outside of the service boundary?
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Concurrent Contracts

How can a service facilitate multi-consumer coupling requirements and abstraction concerns at the same time?
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Dual Protocols

How can an inventory be standardized and not limited to a single communications protocol?
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Decomposed Capability

How can a service be designed to minimize the chances of capability logic deconstruction?
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Decoupled Contract

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

How can a service preserve its functional context while also fulfilling special capability processing requirements?
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Domain Inventory

How can services be delivered to maximize recomposition when enterprise-wide standardization is not possible?
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Entity Abstraction

How can agnostic business logic be separated, reused, and governed independently?
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Functional Decomposition

How can a large business problem be solved without having to build a standalone body of solution logic?
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Inventory Endpoint

How can a collection of services be shielded from external access while still offering their capabilities to external consumers?
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Legacy Wrapper

How can wrapper services with non-standard contracts be prevented from spreading indirect consumer-to-implementation coupling?
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Messaging Metadata

How can services be designed to consume activity state data at runtime?
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Non-Agnostic Context

How can single-purpose service logic be positioned as an effective enterprise resource?
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Partial State Deferral

How can services be designed to optimize resource consumption while still remaining stateful?
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Process Abstraction

How can non-agnostic process logic be separated and governed independently?
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Protocol Bridging

How can a service exchange data with consumers that use different communication protocols?
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Proxy Capability

How can a service subject to decomposition continue to support consumers affected by the decomposition?
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Reliable Messaging

How can a service communicate reliably with consumers when implemented in an unreliable environment?
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Service Agent

How can event-driven logic be separated and governed independently?
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Service Decomposition

How can the granularity of a service be increased subsequent to its implementation?
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Service Façade

How can a service be designed to support multiple contracts while maintaining logic-to-contract coupling?
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Service Messaging

How can services interoperate without forming persistent, tightly coupled connections?
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State Repository

How can service state data be persisted for extended periods without consuming service runtime resources?
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Stateful Services

How can service state data be persisted and managed without consuming service runtime resources?
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Utility Abstraction

How can common utility logic be separated, reused, and independently governed?
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Validation Abstraction

How can service contracts be designed to more easily adapt to validation logic changes?
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Vendor-Agnostic Context

How can a technology architecture be designed to avoid inhibiting dependencies on proprietary vendor platforms?
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