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Service Capability

A service contract can be broken down into a set of service capabilities, each of which expresses a function offered by the service to other software programs. Figure 1 illustrates the service contract symbol together with a set of service capabilities.

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Figure 1 - A Purchase Order service contract with four service capabilities.

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