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 private service registry needs to be positioned as a central part of an inventory architecture supported by formal processes for registration and discovery. Impacts The service registry product needs to be adequately mature and reliable, and its required use and maintenance needs to be incorporated into all service delivery and governance processes and methodologies. Principles Service Discoverability Architecture Enterprise, Inventory The fundamental discovery process during which a human locates a potential service via a service registry representing the service inventory and then interprets the service to determine its suitability. Related Patterns in This Catalog Agnostic Sub-Controller (Erl), Canonical Expression (Erl), Canonical Versioning (Erl), Contract Centralization (Erl), Domain Inventory (Erl), Enterprise Inventory (Erl), Entity Abstraction (Erl), Logic Centralization (Erl), Service Layers (Erl), Service Normalization (Erl), Utility Abstraction (Erl) Related Patterns in Other Catalogs Lookup (Buschmann, Henney, Schmidt, Kircher, Jain) Related Service-Oriented Computing Goals Increased Vendor Diversification Options, 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. (ISBN: 0136135161, Hardcover, Full-Color, 400+ Illustrations, 865 pages) For more information about this book, visit www.soabooks.com.

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