Style-based modeling and refinement of service-oriented architectures

• DOI: 10.1007/s10270-006-0001-4
• Publication Date: 2006-04-04T14:43:15Z
• Authors: Luciano Baresi; Reiko Heckel; Sebastian Thöne; D´aniel Varr´o
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology; INF

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) provide a flexible and dynamic platform for implementing business solutions. In this paper, we address the modeling of such architectures by refining business-oriented architectures, which abstract from technology aspects, into service-oriented ones, focusing on the ability of dynamic reconfiguration (binding to new services at run-time) typical for SOA. The refinement is based on conceptual models of the platforms involved as architectural styles, formalized by graph transformation systems. Based on a refinement relation between abstract and platform-specific styles we investigate how to realize business-specific scenarios on the SOA platform by automatically deriving refined, SOA-specific reconfiguration scenarios.