The Service Locator pattern locates J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) services for clients and thus abstracts the complexity of network operation and J2EE service lookup as EJB (Enterprise ...

Design patterns are solutions to recurring problems and complexities in software design. The ServiceLocator design pattern promotes loose coupling but sans the need of injecting dependencies through ...

Some of the tools you use in building applications also apply as you build out your services. The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP), for example, makes as much sense at the service level as it ...

A service inventory is a living body of services that individually will need the freedom to evolve independently over time. What we learned when documenting the SOA design pattern catalog is that ...

SOA design patterns can and often should be interdependent. Implement a proper relationship between design patterns in order to make your SOA solution the best that it can be. Design patterns have ...

When designing data architectures, you can easily end up with different databases or even different database tables containing the same or similar data. This has been the root of many well documented ...

SOA has matured enough now that nearly a hundred design patterns have emerged to help you make a transition to service-orientation. This gentle introduction to design patterns can guide you into sober ...