A Comparison of SOA Methodologies Analysis & Design Phases

Service oriented computing is a new software engineering paradigm that represents a shift in software engineering and raises the abstraction level by grouping common business process functionality and exposing it as a service. SOA allows a rapid and low-cost application development through service composition. Existing widely used methodologies designed to support objectoriented development such as RUP or agile cannot be reused for SOA without any adaptation. As a consequence, new methodologies that address all the principles and patterns of SOA are required to ensure effective SOA application development. This paper aims to present a state-of-the-art of the most widely known SOA methodologies describing their solutions proposed for SOA analysis & design phases. The characteristics according to which these methodologies are compared are discussed. The results of comparison are provided.