Task: Review Existing Services
Disciplines: Service-Oriented Design
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      Main Description

      The existing service inventory should be reviewed before new services are developed.

      • There may be a service which can be used for the new business process or one that can be extended.
      • Determine whether the new service is really needed.
      Key Considerations
      • Redundancy among application services should be avoided. Perform a periodic review to make sure that services do not have redundant functionality.

      • In this task, task candidate service groupings should be reviewed and compared with current designs to determine if a task belongs to another service.