Service-Oriented Design: The Roots

Abstract

Service-Oriented Design has driven the development of telecommunication infrastructure and applications, in particular the so-called Intelligent Network (IN) Services, since the early 90s. A serviceoriented, feature-based architecture, a corresponding standardization of basic services and applications in real standards, and adequate programming environments enabled flexibilization of services, and dramatically reduced the time to market. Today the current trend toward triple-play services, which blend voice, video, and data on broadband wireline and wireless services builds on this successful experience when reaching for new technological and operational challenges. In this paper, we review our 10 years of experience in service engineering for telecommunication systems from the point of view of Service-Oriented Design then and now.

Scientific workflows with the jABC framework

“…The basic services from which the SLGs are constructed are called Service-Independent Building Blocks, or SIBs by analogy with the telecommunication terminology [107], and in the spirit of the Service-oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm [69,83]. SIBs can refer to any programmatically accessible piece of software functionality such as APIs, Web or REST Services, and command-line programs with scriptable interfaces.…”

“…-eXtreme Programming (XP) [15] and more recently User eXperience (UX) [16], to work in a user-driven fashion and provide immediate feedback through requirement and design validation by means of model tracing, simulation and early testing, -Service Orientation [38,83], to abstract from the implementation of functionality, -Aspect Orientation [49], to treat crosscutting as well as role-specific concerns modularly, and -Model-Driven Design [101], to control the overall development at the modelling level.…”

Software diversity: state of the art and perspectives

“…Harhurin and Hartmann [101] employ a serviceoriented approach [160] to specifying software product lines and reasoning about feature interactions, focusing on consistency of the specification, formalized in terms of Broy's foundational framework [40].…”

Scientific Workflows with XMDD: A Way to Use Process Modeling in Computational Science Education

“…jABC provides these participants with a process management framework that hides low-level details in a service-oriented fashion [10], integrates high-level modeling in the overall development process in a way that user-level models become directly executable [9,7], and supports ad-hoc adaptations and evolution [6,8]. The most attractive feature is its simple and intuitive graphical user interface, essential to make it suitable for these educational purposes.…”