Service-Based Realization of Business Processes Driven by Control-Flow Patterns

This paper deals with Service-Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD). SOAD comprises requirements elicitation, analysis of the requirements to identify services and business processes and finally implementation of the services and processes. It is a heterogeneous approach that combines a number of well-established practices. The key question in SOAD is how to integrate the practices to model a true service-oriented system with all its requirements. The approach presented in this paper helps to bridge the semantic gap between business requirements and IT architecture by using a method for transformation of business process diagrams into service diagrams. The service diagrams describe how the process is realized by using services. In details, the method transforms diagrams denoted in Business Process Modeling Notation into a set of UML diagrams. The principle of the method is demonstrated in an example.