Proposed combined framework of SOA and RUP

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a set of distributed services with minimum independency that interoperate for defined activities to meet business requirements. One of the research priorities in the field of SOA is finding design and development methodology that consider all principles in this architecture and causes effective and efficient application of this architecture. Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology can satisfy this need by including defined and organized processes and also having a general framework and format of software systems production processes. In This article, RUP methodology is reviewed, first. Then RUP properties for developing SOA are studied and then mapping between RUP activities and RUP for SOA activities is established. By Using this mapping and concepts extracted for each phase of RUP for SOA, components in each layer of SOA are identified through implementation by RUP and presented in the form of framework.