Motivation
In recent years, the perception of service-oriented architecture
(SOA) has undergone a remarkable change. Today,
SOA is no longer considered a technical solution combining
web services over standardized interfaces and protocols. Instead,
SOA is conceived as a conceptual approach in order
to align enterprise IT systems with the business strategies
and processes they are supposed to support. The notion of
“service” as the lowest common denominator of business and
IT seems to offer an adequate starting point for consolidating
IT application landscapes according to business needs.
Combining services in ever new service choreographies
promises a flexible, easily adaptable and thus sustainable IT
support.
SOA success stories in large enterprises indicate that service
orientation is an effective way to integrate legacy systems as
reusable building blocks into a flexible enterprise architecture.
Process engines have been installed on the top of this
legacy layer and build up a flexible framework for service
orchestration and process development. Content (services and
processes) is growing fast in such environments, so evolution
and maintenance of service-oriented architectures will be the
challenge of the near future.
However, especially for small and medium sized enterprises,
SOA is a far cry from being already implemented as mainstream.
So strategies for initiating SOA in enterprises are still
subject of interest. Reengineering and migration approaches
have to be considered when legacy systems functionality
will be made available to be used inside workflow-engines.
The SOAME workshop focuses on both subjects – SOA
enabling by reusing legacy systems and SOA maintenance and
evolution.
The SOAME workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of SOA enabling and SOA maintenance to present and discuss state-of-the-art techniques as well as real-world experiences to stimulate further SOA engineering research activities. We aim to encourage the development of a broad community of interest in this area.
Workshop of the 14th European Conference
on Software Maintenance and Reengineering