Service Oriented Solution Modeling and Variation Propagation Analysis Based on Architectural Building Blocks

Liang-Jie Zhang and Jia Zhang
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Liang-Jie Zhang: Kingdee International Software Group CO., Ltd, Shenzen, China
Jia Zhang: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR), 2013, vol. 10, issue 4, 39-61

Abstract: In spite of the widely recognized benefits of applying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to design enterprise-scale software systems, its actual application practice is not always a success. One major reason is the lack of a systematic engineering process and tool supported by reusable architectural artifacts. Toward this ultimate goal, this paper proposes a new method of architectural building blocks (ABB)-based SOA solution design and it is applicable to any layered or tiered infrastructure. The authors present the modeling of solution-level architectural artifacts and their relationships, whose formalization enables event-based variation notification and propagation analysis. The goal is to provide architecture-level support for configuration and re-configuration of architectural artifacts based on industry practices. Their method also supports solution-level project variation management for the process of updating and maintaining architectural artifacts. The authors report a prototype tool that they have developed and describe how they extend the Unified Modeling Language (UML) mechanism to implement the system and enable solution-level enforcement as an example. The prototype has been applied in real projects as an SOA solution modeling tool.

Date: 2013
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