Extracting Services from Legacy for Service-Oriented Business Processes: Challenges and Issues

Youcef Baghdadi, Ricardo Pérez-Castillo

2013

Abstract

Non-agile enterprises slowly adapts to changing business requirements, which could be harmful and affects their competitiveness. Their business processes are rigid and could not respond to the changes. One of the solutions is to use a service-oriented business modeling by stressing out role of SOA and Web services. In this modeling, business processes are represented by specialized services having separated concerns. These are (i) controller service, (ii) state service, and (iii) worker services. This solution requires an approach to: (1) map the existing services of the organization or its partners, or (2) reverse engineering techniques to provide business objects, represented in the information system, as a set of common, consistent service providers.

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Baghdadi Y. and Pérez-Castillo R. (2013). Extracting Services from Legacy for Service-Oriented Business Processes: Challenges and Issues . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop in Software Evolution and Modernization - Volume 1: SEM, (ENASE 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-66-2, pages 3-11. DOI: 10.5220/0004574100030011


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@conference{sem13,
author={Youcef Baghdadi and Ricardo Pérez-Castillo},
title={Extracting Services from Legacy for Service-Oriented Business Processes: Challenges and Issues},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop in Software Evolution and Modernization - Volume 1: SEM, (ENASE 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={3-11},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004574100030011},
isbn={978-989-8565-66-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop in Software Evolution and Modernization - Volume 1: SEM, (ENASE 2013)
TI - Extracting Services from Legacy for Service-Oriented Business Processes: Challenges and Issues
SN - 978-989-8565-66-2
AU - Baghdadi Y.
AU - Pérez-Castillo R.
PY - 2013
SP - 3
EP - 11
DO - 10.5220/0004574100030011