A research agenda for service-oriented architecture

  • Authors:
  • Kostas Kontogiannis;Grace A. Lewis;Dennis B. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece;Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Systems development in SOA environments
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

It is clear that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is having a substantial impact on the way software systems are developed. However, although significant progress is being made in several fronts, current efforts seem to evolve in many directions. There is danger that important research needs will be overlooked, while other efforts will focus on issues of peripheral long-term significance in practice. As a research community that has gone through a substantial "growth spurt" we find ourselves facing a great opportunity and challenge: to better channel our research efforts, we should attempt to reflect upon our progress to date and recognize how our efforts and results build on each other, and to identify--and potentially prioritize--the areas that we still need to investigate. The purpose of this work is to provide a long-term consensus SOA research agenda, classified into research issues pertaining to the business, engineering and operation aspects of service-oriented systems, plus a set of cross-cutting aspects. An additional goal is to assemble an international research group to analyze the current state of the practice and current research initiatives in SOA and create a community of interest around SOA research to share results and ideas on how to improve SOA adoption and the development of service-oriented systems.