Guideline: Principle of Service Discoverability

Services are supplemented with communicative meta data by which they can be effectively discovered and interpreted. Erl[2008]

Relationships

Related Elements	Apply Service-Orientation Principles

Main Description

Discoverable services:

- have a contract that with appropriate meta data that clearly communicates their purpose and capabilities to humans.

- might also be maintained in a registry and / or repository and support queries from design tools and / or humans.