Declare Capability

Kind: technique

Layer: Declarative Core

Record: lexicon:declare-capability

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for having each component state in metadata what it provides and what it requires.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Binding Decision Log and before Unvalidated Metadata.

Category

• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems

Refactors

• Opaque Runtime Behavior
• Predictability
• Self-Describing Architecture
• Self-Describing API
• Metadata-Driven Design
• Metaprogramming
• Reflection
• Introspection

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture