Service Views: a Coherent View Model of the SOA in the Enterprise

Abstract

Architecture views are a popular technique used for documenting and describing software systems architecture through a number of views, each of which cater to a certain group of stakeholders. With the increasing adoption of service oriented architecture and the deployment of Web service based applications both internally and externally, organizations need an improved framework for representing and documenting the service architecture. To this end, we propose a well defined set of views that describe services within the enterprise, including primitive as well as composite service views. In this manner, the proposed model achieves consistency and coherence among different views, thus providing a unified view model for service oriented systems within an organization