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'''Service Layers''' is a [[Design pattern (computer science)|design pattern]], applied within the [[service-orientation]] [[design paradigm]], which aims to organize the services<ref name='services'>
[http://www.whatissoa.com/p11.php services]</ref>, within a service inventory<ref name='serviceinventory'>
[http://www.whatissoa.com/p13.php service inventory]</ref>, into a set of logical layers. Services that are categorized into a particular layer share the same type of functionality. This helps to reduce the governanceconceptual burdenoverhead related to managing the service inventory, as the services belonging to the same layer only containaddress a particularsmaller typeset of solution logic and as a result are easy to maintainactivities.

==Rationale==