A framework for early design and prototyping of service-oriented applications with design patterns

摘要

Service-oriented computing is playing an important role in several domains. Today the biggest shift in mainstream design and programming is toward service-oriented applications. However, the service paradigm raises a bundle of problems that did not exist in traditional component-based development where abstraction, encapsulation, and modularity were the only main concerns. Due to their distributed, dynamic, and heterogeneous nature, service-oriented software applications require us to discover, document, and share new design patterns at the service-and architecture-level. Moreover, service oriented applications are hard to design and validate, and demand for new foundational theories, modeling notations and analysis techniques.