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Agnostic Capability (324) How can multi-
purpose service logic be made effectively
consumable and composable?
Agnostic Context (312) How can multi-
purpose service logic be positioned as an
effective enterprise resource?
Agnostic Sub-Controller (607) How can
agnostic, cross-entity composition logic be
separated, reused, and governed independently?
Asynchronous Queuing (582) How can a
service and its consumers accommodate
isolated failures and avoid unnecessarily locking
resources?
Atomic Service Transaction (623) How can
a transaction with rollback capability be
propagated across messaging-based services?
Brokered Authentication (661) How can a
service efficiently verify consumer credentials if
the consumer and service do not trust each
other or if the consumer requires access to
multiple services?
Canonical Expression (275) How can
service contracts be consistently understood
and interpreted?
Canonical Protocol (150) How can services
be designed to avoid protcol bridging?
Canonical Resources (237) How can
unnecessary infrastructure resource disparity
be avoided?
Canonical Schema (158) How can
services be designed to avoid data model
transformation?
Canonical Schema Bus (709)
Canonical Versioning (286) How can service
contracts within the same service inventory be
versioned with minimal impact?
Capability Composition (521) How can a
service capability solve a problem that requires
logic outside of the service boundary?
Capability Recomposition (526)
How can the same capability be used to help
solve multiple problems?
Compatible Change (465)
How can a service contract be modified
without impacting consumers?
Compensating Service Transaction (631)
How can composition runtime exceptions be
consistently accommodated without requiring
services to lock resources?
Composition Autonomy (616) How can
compositions be implemented to minimize loss
of autonomy?
Concurrent Contracts (421) How can a
service facilitate multi-consumer coupling
requirements and abstraction concerns at the
same time?
Contract Centralization (409) How can
direct consumer-to-implementation coupling
be avoided?
Contract Denormalization (414) How can a
service contract facilitate consumer programs
with differing data exchange requirements?
Cross-Domain Utility Layer (267) How can
redundant utility logic be avoided across
domain service inventories?
Data Confidentiality (641) How can data
within a message be protected so that it is not
disclosed to unintended recipients while in
transit?
Data Format Transformation (681)
How can services interact with programs that
communicate with different data formats?
Data Model Transformation (671) How can
services interoperate when using different data
models for the same type of data?
Data Origin Authentication (649) How can
a service verify that a message originates from a
known sender and that the message has not
been tampered with in transit?
Decomposed Capability (504) How can a
service be designed to minimize the chances of
capability logic deconstruction?
Decoupled Contract (401) How can a service
express its capabilities independently of its
implementation?
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Direct Authentication (656) How can a
service verify the credentials provided by a
consumer?
Distributed Capability (510) How can a
service preserve its functional context while also
fulfilling special capability processing
requirements?
Domain Inventory (123) How can services
be delivered to maximize recomposition when
enterprise-wide standardization is not possible?
Dual Protocols (227) How can a service
inventory overcome the limitations of its
canonical protocol while still remaining
standardized?
Enterprise Inventory (116) How can services
be delivered to maximize recomposition?
Enterprise Service Bus (704)
Entity Abstraction (175) How can agnostic
business logic be separated, reused, and
governed independently?
Event-Driven Messaging (599) How can
service consumers be automatically notified of
runtime service events?
Exception Shielding (376) How can a service
prevent the disclosure of information about its
internal implementation when an exception
occurs?
Federated Endpoint Layer (713)
File Gateway (457) How can service logic
interact with legacy systems that can only share
information by exchanging files?
Functional Decomposition (300) How can a
large business problem be solved without
having to build a standalone body of solution
logic?
Intermediate Routing (549) How can
dynamic runtime factors affect the path of a
message?
Inventory Endpoint (260) How can a service
inventory be shielded from external access while
still offering service capabilities to external
consumers?
Legacy Wrapper (441) How can wrapper
services with non-standard contracts be
prevented from spreading indirect consumer-
to-implementation coupling?
Logic Centralization (136) How can the
misuse of redundant service logic be avoided?
Message Screening (381) How can a service
be protected from malformed or malicious
input?
Messaging Metadata (538) How can services
be designed to process activity-specific data at
runtime?
Metadata Centralization (280) How can
service metadata be centrally published and
governed?
Multi-Channel Endpoint (451) How can
legacy logic fragmented and duplicated for
different delivery channels be centrally
consolidated?
Non-Agnostic Context (319) How can
single-purpose service logic be positioned as an
effective enterprise resource?
Official Endpoint (711)
Orchestration (701)
Partial State Deferral (356) How can services
be designed to optimize resource consumption
while still remaining stateful?
Partial Validation (362) How can
unnecessary data validation be avoided?
Policy Centralization (207) How can
policies be normalized and consistently
enforced across multiple services?
Process Abstraction (182) How can non-
agnostic process logic be separated and
governed independently?
Process Centralization (193) How can
abstracted business process logic be centrally
governed?
Protocol Bridging (687) How can a service
exchange data with consumers that use different
communication protocols?
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Proxy Capability (497) How can a service
subject to decomposition continue to support
consumers affected by the decomposition?
Redundant Implementation (345) How can
the reliability and availability of a service be
increased?
Reliable Messaging (592) How can services
communicate reliably when implemented in an
unreliable environment?
Rules Centralization (216) How can
business rules be abstracted and centrally
? available to external consumers without
governed?
Schema Centralization (200) How can
service contracts be designed to avoid
redundant data representation?
Service Agent (543) How can event-driven
logic be separated and governed independently?
Service Broker (707)
Service Callback (566) How can a service
communicate asynchronously with its
consumers?
Service Data Replication (350) How can
service autonomy be preserved when services
require access to shared data sources?
Service Decomposition (489) How can the
granularity of a service be increased subsequent
to its implementation?
Service Encapsulation (305) How can
solution logic be made available as a resource of
the enterprise?
Service Façade (333) How can a service
accommodate changes to its contract or
implementation while allowing the core service
logic to evolve independently?
Service Grid (254) How can deferred service
state data be scaled and kept fault-tolerant?
Service Instance Routing (574) How can
consumers contact and interact with service
instances without the need for proprietary
processing logic?
Service Layers (143) How can the services in
an inventory be organized based on functional
commonality?
Service Messaging (533) How can services
interoperate without forming persistent, tightly
coupled connections?
Service Normalization (131) How can a
service inventory avoid redundant service logic?
Service Perimeter Guard (394) How can
services that run in a private network be made
exposing internal resources?
Service Refactoring (484) How can a service
be evolved without impacting existing
consumers?
State Messaging (557) How can a service
remain stateless while participating in stateful
interactions?
State Repository (242) How can service state
data be persisted for extended periods without
consuming service runtime resources?
Stateful Services (248) How can service state
data be persisted and managed without
consuming service runtime resources?
Termination Notification (478) How can
the scheduled expiry of a service contract be
communicated to consumer programs?
Three-Layer Inventory (715)
Trusted Subsystem (387) How can a
consumer be prevented from circumventing a
service and directly accessing its resources?
UI Mediator (366) How can a service-
oriented solution provide a consistent,
interactive user experience?
Utility Abstraction (168) How can common
non-business centric logic be separated, reused,
and independently governed?
Validation Abstraction (429) How can
service contracts be designed to more easily
adapt to validation logic changes?
Version Identification (472) How can
consumers be made aware of service contract
version information?