A major challenge establishing service orient architectures (SOA) and applications is how to design the right services in order to make them reusable and sustainable. A lot of questions have to be answered. For instance:<\/p>\n
What are the service candidates?
\nWhat is the right service granularity?
\nIs it better to use a top-down or bottom-up approach?
\netc, etc, …<\/p>\n
Apart from technical issues answering these kind of questions is very important for the quality of the resulting applications. Albeit the traditional OOAD approaches are helpful, SOA requires a different perspective on the subject. This perspective is party technical an partly business related as existing business processes have to be taken into account.<\/p>\n
The article Elements of Service-Oriented Analysis and Design<\/a> provides a good introduction into the subject.<\/p>\n Experience shows that it is a good approach to have mixed teams with experienced people from the technical and the business departments. A major challenge establishing service orient architectures (SOA) and applications is how to design the right services in order to make them reusable and sustainable. A lot of questions have to be answered. For instance: What are the service candidates? What is the right service granularity? Is it better to use a top-down or bottom-up … Continue reading The Challenge of SOAD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pleus.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSOAD is neither a merely technical nor a merely business related task. It’s both. That’s the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"