Integrating Process and Services through Meta-models

The service conceptualization within a SOA/BPM methodology reduces the gap between the business process life cycle and their executable versions. The SOA/BMP methodology supporting this article, proposes a set of steps; interactions between such steps require the definition of mechanisms that can be formalized. This paper is based on the use of metamodels as a means to define the language syntax of each stage and unambiguously transformation rules between them as a step towards automatic transformations. In previous work a service meta-model conceptualization integrated with the BPMN meta-model was proposed. The SCA standard (Service Component Architecture) describes how to create and combine components. In particular, this paper proposes a meta-model integration between our service meta-model conceptualization and the SCA meta-model.