Software Architect's Handbook

Service-oriented analysis

Service-oriented analysis is a stage in the SOA project life cycle and is used to decide what services should be built and what logic should be encapsulated by each service. The analysis is an iterative process that takes place once for each business process.

When a team is committed to building a SOA, it should perform some form of analysis specific to service-orientation and beyond standard analysis. One way that organizations can improve service modeling is how they go about incorporating service-oriented analysis and design into their software development process. Each organization has its own software development methodology and should determine how best to include service modeling into their own process.