Service-Oriented Design Process Using UML

Abstract

This chapter presents a worked example of a design process for Service-Oriented Architecture. It utilizes the industry standard modeling notation, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) from the Object Management Group, to present a practical design for services. The authors have used their real world experience on many service-oriented projects to develop a design method using visual modeling to implement high quality services and service implementation. The chapter introduces a terminology for services and their implementing components and then works through the example to show how the implementation is designed in UML. We hope that this will show the reader how services are implemented by organizations on real projects.