CLOSING THE BUSINESS-APPLICATION GAP IN SOA - Challenges and Solution Directions

Boris Shishkov, Jan L.G. Dietz, Marten van Sinderen

2007

Abstract

Adequately resolving the business-software gap in the context of SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) appears to be a non-trivial task, mainly because of the dual essence of the service concept: (i) services are inevitably business-restricted because they operate in real-life environments; (ii) services are also technology-restricted because the software components realizing them have to obey the restrictions of their complex technology-driven environments. Hence, the existence of these two restriction directions makes the (SOA-driven) business-software alignment challenging – here current business-software mapping mechanisms can only play a limited role. With regard to this, the contribution of the current paper is two-fold: 1. it analyzes SOA and its actual challenges, from a business-software-alignment perspective, deriving essential SOA application desirable properties; 2. it proposes software services specification directions, particularly concerning the (SOA-driven) business-software mapping. This contribution is expected to be useful in current software development.

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Shishkov B., L.G. Dietz J. and van Sinderen M. (2007). CLOSING THE BUSINESS-APPLICATION GAP IN SOA - Challenges and Solution Directions . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-06-7, pages 333-336. DOI: 10.5220/0001326803330336


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft07,
author={Boris Shishkov and Jan L.G. Dietz and Marten van Sinderen},
title={CLOSING THE BUSINESS-APPLICATION GAP IN SOA - Challenges and Solution Directions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2007},
pages={333-336},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001326803330336},
isbn={978-989-8111-06-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - CLOSING THE BUSINESS-APPLICATION GAP IN SOA - Challenges and Solution Directions
SN - 978-989-8111-06-7
AU - Shishkov B.
AU - L.G. Dietz J.
AU - van Sinderen M.
PY - 2007
SP - 333
EP - 336
DO - 10.5220/0001326803330336