Service Registry

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Extensibility Core

Record: architecture:service-registry

Severity: contextual

Scope: runtime, service, plugin

Canonical: Ontology

A mechanism where services or plugins register under a key and are resolved by that key at runtime.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Dependency Injection and before Registry Pattern.

Requires

• Registration Protocol

Reinforces

• Discovery
• Dynamic Binding

Enables

• Dynamic Resolution

Conflicts with

• Hardcoded Lookup

In tension with

• Registry Availability

Tensions

• Service Registry / Registry Availability

Violated by

• Hardcoded Lookup

Refactored by

• Service Discovery

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Plugin / Extensibility / IoC

Linked from

• Runtime Discovery / Dynamic Binding
• Core Vocabulary
• Plugin / Extensibility / IoC
• Severity levels
• The resolutions