Architect's dream or developer's nightmare?

Architectural principles such as loose coupling are the key drivers behind the adoption of service-oriented architectures. Service-oriented architectures promote concepts such as composition, process modeling, protocol design, declarative programming, event-based programming, and object-document mapping. These architectural ideals can be fraught with challenges for developers who are faced with unfamiliar programming models and immature tools. This paper briefly reviews the service-oriented architecture concepts and highlights the most pressing challenges for developers. These challenges suggest several focus areas for tool builders and software service engineering researchers. Keywords. Event-based programming, declarative programming, object-document mapping, patterns, process modeling, protocol design, service composition, software engineering, SOA

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DEBS
• Authors: Gregor Hohpe
• Keywords: DEBS 2007, Declarative Programming, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Event-based Programming, Service-oriented Architecture