Service Oriented Analysis and Design(SOAD)

The interdisciplinary OOAD method facilitating successful SOA deployments, which can be referred to as Service-Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD).

SOA architectural style aims to provide enterprise business solutions that can extend or change on demand. SOA solutions are composed of reusable services, with well-defined, published and standards-compliant interfaces. SOA provides a mechanism for integrating existing legacy applications regardless of their platform or language.

In SOA, always the focus is on Messages (XML) rather than API.

Conceptually, there are three major levels of abstraction within SOA:

1.Operations: Transactions that represent single logical units of work (LUWs). Execution of an operation will typically cause one or more persistent data records to be read, written, or modified. SOA operations are directly comparable to object-oriented (OO) methods. They have a specific, structured interface, and return structured responses. Just as for methods, the execution of a specific operation might involve invocation of additional operations.

2.Services: Represent logical groupings of operations. For example, if we view CustomerProfiling as a service, then, Lookup customer by telephone number, List customers by name and postal code, and Save data for new customer represent the associated operations.

3.Business Processes: A long running set of actions or activities performed with specific business goals in mind. Business processes typically encompass multiple service invocations. Examples of business processes are: Initiate New Employee, Sell Products or Services, and Fulfill Order.

In SOA terms, a business process consists of a series of operations which are executed in an ordered sequence according to a set of business rules. The sequencing, selection, and execution of operations is termed service or process choreography. Typically, choreographed services are invoked in order to respond to business events.

BPM, EA, and OOAD positioning

SOAD and its ingredients: OOAD, BPM, and EA

The Layers of design

The SOAD service definition hierarchy

SOA Choreography vs SOA Orchestration (From WebService perspective)

Process choreography, as the term is commonly used in the IT world, describes the interplay of various trading partners to implement a multi organization business function. For example, in the supply chain space, the fulfillment of a product purchase may involve the exchange of purchase orders, advance shipping notices, and money between two or more companies. Choreography does not describe how each company would conduct its operations, only how the different companies would interface with each other.

Process orchestration [of web service] is a technique to recursively compose and orchestrate web services to provide a new composite webservice Process orchestration is when a central process coordinates the execution of different Web services operations. The central conductor (as in an orchestra) is aware of the overall goal of the orchestration, the operations involved, and the order of the operation invocation. This centralized management allows Web services to be added or removed without each being aware of its effect on others, as well as compensatory processes to be implemented in case of faults and exceptions.

ref:

Elements of Service-Oriented Analysis and Design - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soad1/

Place XML Message Design Ahead of Schema Planning to Improve Web Service Interoperability - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc188900.aspx

Case Study: SOA Design Scenario - http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4379.pdf

SOA AntiPatterns - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-antipatterns/



Oracle’s SOA Architect Center - http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/soa/index.html



IBM’s SOA Center - http://www-01.ibm.com/software/solutions/soa/



Service Façade - http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci1346145_mem1,00.html

SOA Design Pattern Application Sequences: Service Facade + UI Mediator -

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/erl_soa_design_patterns_app_sequences.html



Non-Agnostic Context SOA Pattern -

http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci1347582_mem1,00.html



Domain Inventory SOA Pattern -

http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid26_gci1349152_mem1,00.html



E-business patterns -

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/patterns/index.html

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/patterns/library/