Patterns for e-business naming conventions

Patterns for e-business naming conventions
The capitalization convention is to use lower case for pattern and upper case for the first and most significant qualifier.
e.g.
Business pattern
Self-Service business pattern
Collaboration business pattern
Information Aggregation business pattern
Extended Enterprise business pattern
Integration pattern
Access Integration pattern (Although slightly inconsistent, keeping Integration capitalized keeps the correct focus on integration.)
Application Integration pattern
Composite pattern, or for a specific Composite pattern, Electronic Commerce composite pattern
Application pattern, or for a specific Application pattern, Router application pattern
Runtime pattern

The textual notation Business pattern::Application pattern::Runtime pattern::Product mapping is used to represent the position of an asset within the P4eb hierarchy. Occasionally an intermediate level or the pattern type will be omitted for brevity.
e.g.
Self-Service::Router application pattern
Self-Service::Router runtime pattern

In addition, when it is necessary to identify variations or product instances at the same level in the hierarchy an '=' sign will be used.
e.g.
Self-Service::Decomposition=Integration Server runtime pattern
Application Integration::Direct Connection=Message Connection::Product mapping=Web services

This makes it easier for the reader to fully identify the referenced asset.

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