--- In [email protected], Michael Poulin <m3pou...@...> wrote: > > Here is a misunderstanding, Rob. Certainly, to run, a service needs > an external call. However, self-contained atomic SOA business > service does not need any other business services to provide its > RWE;
No disagreement there. > it does not know about outside world of services. It doesn't know about other services, but it knows about the outside world--those consumers that integrate with the service. The service implementation might also be integrated with other components via non- service approaches. > In contrast, an aggregate service - does. Right, so consumers integrate with the aggregate service via the published interfaces and the service in turn integrates with other services via the published interfaces of those services. -Rob
