Contemporary SOA supports a service-oriented business modeling paradigm

Contemporary SOA supports a service-oriented business modeling paradigm

In our description of a primitive SOA, we briefly explored how business processes can be represented and expressed through services. Partitioning business logic into services that can then be composed has significant implications as to how business processes can bemodeled (Figure 3.13). Analysts can leverage these features by incorporating an extent of service-orientation into business processes for implementation through SOAs.
Figure 3.13. A collection (layer) of services encapsulating business process logic.






In other words, services can be designed to express business logic. BPM models, entity models, and other forms of business intelligence can be accurately represented through the coordinated composition of business-centric services. This is an area of SOA that is not yet widely accepted or understood . We therefore spend a significant portion of this book exploring the service-oriented business modeling paradigm.