SOA Governance in Action

Part 2. Design-time policies

In this second part of the book we’ll look at three different categories of policies that can be applied during design time. We’ll start by looking at policies that deal with service design and documentation. In this category we’ll examine the following policies:

• SSD_POL_1: Create self-documenting services.
• SSD_POL_2: Reuse existing message standards.
• SSD_POL_3: Design for reusability.
• SSD_POL_4: Support multiple versions of services.

Besides documentation policies that can be applied during design time, there are also a number of security-related policies that can be applied during this phase. In this part we’ll look at the set of security policies, as shown in the following list:

• SEC_POL_1: Encrypt a communications ...