A framework for early design and prototyping of service-oriented applications with design patterns

作者：Capelli Steven; Scandurra Patrizia^*

来源：Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, 2016, 46: 140-166.

DOI：10.1016/j.cl.2016.07.001

• Service modeling and prototyping
• Design pattern languages
• Service Component Architectures
• Formal pattern specification

Service-oriented computing is playing an important role in several domains. Today the biggest shift in mainstream design and programming is toward service-oriented applications. However, the service paradigm raises a bundle of problems that did not exist in traditional component-based development where abstraction, encapsulation, and modularity were the only main concerns. Due to their distributed, dynamic, and heterogeneous nature, service-oriented software applications require us to discover, document, and share new design patterns at the service-and architecture-level. Moreover, service oriented applications are hard to design and validate, and demand for new foundational theories, modeling notations and analysis techniques.
In line to such a vision, this article presents a framework, called SCA-PatternBox, to design and prototype service-oriented applications with design patterns. The framework relies on the OASIS standard Service Component Architecture (SCA) and on SCA component implementation types, such as SCA-Java, for supporting an "implementation-oriented" approach to service-oriented architecture modeling and to the definition and instantiation of design patterns. Moreover, in order to provide formally verified design patterns, SCA-PatternBox allows the formal specification and analysis of the functional behavioral aspects of a design pattern using a formal service specification language called SCA-ASM (Service Component Architecture-Abstract State Machine). As major evaluation of the framework, two case studies and lessons learned are presented. A final comparison of existing design pattern languages is also reported.

• 出版日期2016-11