Services conceptualization within SOA/BPM methodology

The SOA/BMP methodology proposes a model for aligning business processes with the services providing the functionality required by them. Within such methodology, the conceptualization of services and their mapping with software components enable to reduce the gap between business processes life cycle and their executable versions. Although the methodology proposes a set of steps, the interactions between such steps still is to be formalized. The use of meta-models is an alternative for such formalization, since they enable to unambiguously define the syntax for the languages used in each step and the transformation rules between them, serving as a previous step towards automatic transformations. This work presents a proposal for integrating a meta-model for services - proposed in a previous work and integrated with BPM; and a meta-model for components - defined by the SCA (Service Component Architecture) standard. The contribution of this paper enables to formalize the interactions between two steps of the SOA/BPM methodology.