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Flexible Service Catalogs
Describe what service catalogs areA service catalog is a complete design for a service, made up of all the necessary components to implement that service. Ideally, a service catalog provides flexibility and configurability, in the form of input parameters, scaling behaviors and so on. In this iteration, however, we will focus simply on making the it possible to create a service catalog from components and, if time and resources allow, implement features that improve the usability of service catalogs, e.g. improved searching. We also hope to implement visualization improvements that components make possible, allowing the user to change the level of detail from a simple block diagram to a full breakdown of all the nodes and relationships in the design, or levels inbetween.
Implementation
Service catalogs are very similar to existing service templates in Eclipse Winery, at least in the initial implementation. The main difference is that they may contain components as well as (or instead of) nodes. There may be further differences introduced in the future, however, so we plan to implement service catalogs as a separate class of entity based on the existing functionality for service templates in Eclipse Winery. On the other hand, future development may consider merging service catalog and components into the service template as more of a type or optional set of features that can be used for service template editing.
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