A Service-Oriented Architecture Reference Model

Abstract

Recently, SOA plays a more and more important role in software research and software development. On the basis of the research findings on SOA, this paper presents a SOA reference model that can be used to design SOA. The paper deeply discusses some concepts on SOA, and expatiates on the structure of the reference model and its service bus and meta model for service contracts. Moreover, the paper presents the maturity model for evaluating service-oriented architectures. The reference model lays the foundation for building service-oriented architectures.