Requirements Modelling and Specification for Service Oriented Architecture

Table of contents

1. Copyright
2. Trademark Notice
3. Foreword by Mark McGregor
4. Foreword by Professor Neil Maiden
5. Preface
6. Principles of SOA
   1. Why Projects Fail
   2. Aligning IT with Business - Speaking a Common Language
   3. What is Service Oriented Architecture?
   4. Business Drivers for SOA
   5. Technology Drivers
   6. Benefits, Pitfalls and Prospects
   7. Migration Strategies
   8. Summary
   9. Bibliographical Notes
7. Architecture-Objects, Components, Services
   1. What is Architecture?
   2. Architecture through the Ages
   3. Objects and Components
   4. Architecture and SOA
   5. Stateless Services
   6. Practical Principles for Developing, Maintaining and Exploiting SOA
   7. Summary
   8. Bibliographical Notes
8. Approaches to Requirements Engineering
   1. Conventional Approaches
   2. Classic Requirements versus Use Cases
   3. Problem Frames
   4. Requirements and Business Rules
   5. Establishing and Prioritizing the Business Objectives
   6. Soft Techniques for Requirements Elicitation
   7. Summary
   8. Bibliographical Notes
9. Business Process Modelling
   1. The Origins of and Need for Business Process Modelling
   2. Business Process Modelling in a Nutshell
   3. UML Activity Diagrams
   4. BPMN
   5. WS-BPEL
   6. Orchestration and Choreography
   7. Process Algebra and Petri Nets
   8. The Human Side of Business Process Management
   9. Summary
   10. Bibliographical Notes
10. Catalysis Conversation Analysis
    1. What is a Business Process?
    2. Conversations
    3. Conversation Stereotypes and Scripts
    4. Conversations as Components
    5. Contracts and Goals
    6. Conversations, Collaborations and Services
    7. Checking Model Consistency
    8. Summary
    9. Bibliographical Notes
11. Models of Large Enterprises
    1. Business Process Modelling and SOA\hb in the Large
    2. Business Rules in the Mission Grid
    3. The Mission Grid as a Roadmap for SOA
    4. Other Approaches
    5. Summary
    6. Bibliographical Notes
12. Specification Modelling
    1. From Requirements to Specification
    2. Some Problems with the Conventional Approach to Use Cases
    3. Describing Boundary Conversations or Use Cases
    4. Establishing the Type Model
    5. Finding Services from State Models
    6. Finding Business Rules
    7. Ontology, Type Models and Business Rules
    8. Documenting the Specification
    9. Associations, Rules and Encapsulation
    10. Summary
    11. Bibliographical Notes
13. Standards
    1. BPM Standards
    2. Web Services Standards
    3. Other Miscellaneous Standards
    4. Bibliographical Notes
14. Requirements Engineering and Specification Patterns
    1. Related External Patterns
15. The Fundamental Concepts of Service Oriented Architecture
16. References and Bibliography
17. Index