SOA Generic Views In the Eye of the Beholder

This paper presents an approach called generic view concept which facilitates the creation and visualization of role-based, task-oriented views on service-oriented architectures. Those views enhance the understanding from the technical and functional point of view, and thus reduce the inherent complexity arising during the creation, use and maintenance of service-oriented architectures. The unique aspect of the generic view concept is that it does not constrain stakeholders to a set of predefined views. In order to examine the usefulness of generic views in real world scenarios, a prototype has been implemented applying 3D visualization techniques.