Service-Oriented Architecture: Analysis and Design for Services and Microservices

Appendix C. SOA Design Patterns Reference

This appendix provides profile tables for the patterns referenced throughout this book. As explained in Chapter 1, each pattern reference is suffixed with the page number of its corresponding profile table in this appendix.

What’s a Design Pattern?

The simplest way to describe a pattern is that it provides a proven solution to a common problem individually documented in a consistent format and usually as part of a larger collection.

The notion of a pattern is already a fundamental part of everyday life. Without acknowledging it each time, we naturally use proven solutions to solve common problems each ...