Software Architect's Handbook

Service-oriented design

The service-oriented design phase begins once the analysis is complete. Having a thorough understanding of the requirements and using the service models from the analysis stage will allow for the creation of a proper service design.

The service-oriented design phase uses the logical candidate services that were derived during service-oriented analysis and creates the physical service designs. Before designing the implementation of the services, the first step is to design the physical service interfaces. We need to make decisions regarding the service interfaces based on the service candidates, the requirements that need to be met, as well as the organization and industry standards that will be required to have a standardized ...