SOA Modeling Patterns for Service-Oriented Discovery and Analysis

PREFACE

One of the most challenging tasks in today's business and information technology (IT) environments is to communicate a solution to an organizational problem in a simple manner that can be easily understood by business and IT personnel alike. Is it also arduous to explain in simple words how a remedy to an enterprise concern can be applied without getting bogged down by unnecessary and confusing details that do not necessarily depict the nature of the solution. Perhaps the secret ingredient to the implementation of a successful project is people who can articulate a cure to an organizational threat in a straightforward fashion. Managers, architects, developers, analysts, and modelers should be able not only to justify their course of action but also to elaborate on the motivation behind the methodology and technologies used to meet business requirements and technical specifications.

The intrinsic difficulty in explaining a solution in plain words is related to the intricate structure of a project, which characteristically consists of various requirements, each of which must satisfy different stakeholders' imperatives. These distinct views typically represent concerns such as architecture direction and adherence to best practices, technological feasibility, implementation complexities, and even return on investment. To alleviate these challenges, SOA Modeling Patterns for Service-Oriented Discovery and Analysis offers a service-oriented architecture (SOA) discipline that can ...