Some of the tools you use in building applications also apply as you build out your services. The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP), for example, makes as much sense at the service level as it ...

The Service Locator pattern locates J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) services for clients and thus abstracts the complexity of network operation and J2EE service lookup as EJB (Enterprise ...

Design patterns are solutions to recurring problems and complexities in software design. The ServiceLocator design pattern promotes loose coupling but sans the need of injecting dependencies through ...

A service inventory is a living body of services that individually will need the freedom to evolve independently over time. What we learned when documenting the SOA design pattern catalog is that ...