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13. Practice – Services in Action

Tom Graves1  
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Eaglehawk, VIC, Australia
 

On their own, services do nothing. To be useful – to contribute to the overall service of the enterprise – they need to be linked to other services in a choreographed sequence of transactions, as a business process. So it’s here that we turn to the standard process-modeling tools and techniques, in order to describe the runtime relationships between services and the choreography mechanisms that link them together into a business-process.

So let’s take a (much-simplified) example of a service to create ...

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