Example: ServiceChannel (SoaML)
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Main Description

In services models, ServiceChannels connect consumers and providers and therefore define the coupling in the system. They isolate the dependencies between consuming and providing participants to particular Request/service interaction points.

This figure illustrates a Manufacturer service Participant that assembles a number of other Participants necessary to actually implement a service as a deployable runtime solution. Manufacturer provides a purchaser service that it delegates to the purchasing service of its orderProcessor part. ServiceChannels connect the Requests to the Services the OrderProcessor needs in order to execute.