Business Process Service Oriented Methodology (BPSOM) with service generation in SoaML

Abstract

Carrying out business processes by means of software services helps to close the business-systems gap, by introducing an intermediate layer between business process definition and software systems, thus permitting not only better independence, but also more traceability between them. Despite the fact that technologies have matured to support this new reality, there is a lack of methodologies and notations, although some have been proposed to guide service development with different visions of service design and implementation. Service modeling is the basis for, among other things, the automation of several development steps by means of the model-driven development paradigm. The SoaML standard is a major step towards service modeling in UML. In this paper we extend our Business Process Service Oriented Methodology (BPSOM) for service development from business processes by integrating two main aspects: service modeling using SoaML and QVT transformations to obtain SoaML service models from BPMN BP models. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.