Questions about service-oriented architecture, or designing software as a collection of services.
Questions tagged [soa]
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In choosing a service-oriented architecture framework that needs to work with .NET and with Java, what to look for?
I planning to write an application in which there will be a service (call it A) listening for particular commands. This service will then relay those commands to other services (call them B and C) which are written, respectively, in .NET and Java…
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Return Types from Service Interfaces in Service Layer: Mapper required for UI Layer objects?
I am designing a component based system using JSF2 on top of Spring's IoC Container.
It is to employ a service layer between a controller and the domain/business layer (I anticipate the controller is nothing more than the JSF Servlet binding in the…
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Identify Service Oriented Architecture
How can I tell if a system is built upon a service oriented architecture when reading its source code?
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In a Service Oriented Architecture, should a service make a request while it is servicing a request
In a Service Oriented Architecture, is it a violation of its general philosophy to have a service that is responding to a request put another request on the service bus to fulfill said request? Or should the original request have the dependency…
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SOA - The four tenets
I'm reading about SOA and the four tenets required to make a SOA application. I have tried different sources, but the explanations are twisting. I'm searching for something that is a bit less abstract. Is my interpretation correct?
The four tenets…
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How to do lazy loading in a SOA fashion?
For example, I've got a root object exposed in a SOA service, say Invoice (Invoice has line items as children).
Sometimes, I need to retrieve its detail line items. I'm thinking to make it lazy loading, because it's a traffic overhead to transfer…
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Issues with the intended behavior of a Service layer?
This analysis makes sense, and states anything that avoids code duplication and simplifies maintenance speaks for a service layer.
What is the technical behavior?
When a service client references a service, does it do so at runtime, or does it…
Rafael Emshoff
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What is the added value of Service Discovery in SOA for this project?
We are retrofitting an architecture on a fragmented landscape of about 9 software products. These products are all related to a social/community platform. These software products, consisting of webapps, webservices and smartphone apps, were…
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Are there guidelines for SOA events and file transfers in a SOA context?
We are part of a SOA implementation.
We publish events via the enterprise bus for certain changes in our system.
The architects here have advised, however, that some bulk changes to data should go via a flat file (generated by our system) and…
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Sharing logic among services
I was talking with my boss recently about composing services from other services (in a Service-Oriented Architecture, if you haven't already guessed). We disagreed on some architectural principles and I'd like to find some articles to read around…
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