What does it mean for a service to be loosely coupled in a Service-Oriented Architecture?
A service is said to be loosely coupled if its consumers are minimally impacted by changes to that service or its environment. Some coupling is obviously inevitable since the consumer has to make use of the service but can be minimised in a number of ways:
A service is said to be loosely coupled if its consumers are minimally impacted by changes to that service or its environment. Some coupling is obviously inevitable since the consumer has to make use of the service but can be minimised in a number of ways: