Service-oriented analysis and design

Service-oriented analysis and design (SOAD) is an approach to software modeling and development specially designed for the service-oriented architecture paradigm. It builds upon earlier development processes, including OOAD and business process modeling. All of these design approaches promote information hiding, abstraction, and separation of concerns. SOAD adds innovations for service repositories, service orchestration, and the enterprise service bus.

SOAD helps design, build, aggregate, and deploy applications as web services, built with SOAP, WSDL and UDDI technologies.

SOMA or Service-oriented Modeling and Architecture refers to the more general domain of service modeling necessary to design and create a service-oriented architecture. SOMA covers a broader scope and implements service-oriented analysis and design through the identification, specification and realization of services, components and flows.

=External links=

*[http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soa-design1/ Service-oriented Modeling and Architecture: How to Identify, Specify and Realize Services] *[http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soad1/ IBM Article: Elements of Service-Oriented Analysis and Design]