APPENDIX A: MEDIA-SPECIFIC SERVICE EXAMPLES

This book has focused on describing some of the core ideas and technologies behind Service-Oriented Architecture. However, often the best way to explain a concept is to give concrete examples. Thus, this appendix aims to provide some generic example services to demonstrate some core ideas about SOA. To those readers who are raring to build their own SOA infrastructures, the caveat is this: these examples are not intended to be complete pictures of everything these business services may need to do in an enterprise. The details of any service interface is specific to the business goals of the media enterprise implementing it.

The following services give a taste, but not the complete picture (which requires ...

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