Service interface

From AMWA

A service interface provides the description of the type of message(s) that the consumer needs to exchange with the provider in order to use the provided service. The service interface is a part of the service contract.

The set of messages exchanged with a service is usually partitioned into operations, where each operation follows a particular message exchange pattern.

Examples

A sales service presented the following service operations as part of its service interface: “get rundown,” “update rundown,” “submit as-run log,” and “alert sales department.” Its underlying service implementation is a traffic system.