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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

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