Service Creation Styles

At Momentum SI, we've been working on an EA framework for producing reference architectures and candidate architectures. This work has an emphasis on SOA but also considers many of the other architectural remedies.

One aspect of an architecture is the style that is used to create/execute a service. Although we've seen many variations, here is our high level categorization scheme:













Note that this doesn't cover registries, configuration management, version control or other essential part of the architecture. Those remedies are covered in other areas of our SOA reference architectures.