Dealing with the "Melted Cheese Effect": Contracts

Author: msdn.microsoft.com | Published: 18th Nov 2005 | Visited: 347 times | Add Comment
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Services have dependencies in often undocumented and unintended ways. The second in a collaborative series that focuses on the design of Web services, this article discusses contracts as a way to describe these dependencies and make them more manageable.

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