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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's not hard to create a RESTful web service in Java. In fact, frameworks like Spring Boot, the Eclipse MicroProfile and Jakarta Enterprise Edition make the development of RESTful Java applications ...

Furthermore, a React or Angular app might require multiple calls to a given service to obtain a completely informed view. One way to address all these is the back ends for front ends (BFF) ...

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 ...

Looking at the mainstream practice of service design today, something is clearly not working. Over the past decade, service design has evolved into a commodified brand or product—one that has been ...