Definition: Services

I just ran across a definition of a service in the paper "Composition
Contracts for Service Interaction" Andrade, L. and Fiadeiro, J., which
looks good.

Slightly modified -
Services are granular software components that can be used as building
blocks for the assembly of business processes.

Original -
Services can be seen as granular software components that can be used as
building blocks for distributed applications or for the assembly of
business processes.

Don

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