A Multiview Framework Driven by Use Cases to Support the Design of Service Components

In the field of software technologies, the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture for IS has been accompanied by the introduction of new service component models which are well-suited to realize services. While these service components offer new capabilities to simplify the construction and maintenance of IS, the issue of their design needs to be further examined as current existing works do not sufficiently bridge the gap between requirements and service component models. In this paper, we present a multi-view framework to support the design of services along the development process. The framework is grounded on the notion of Logical Service Block which represents a service from Use case to assembly model and acts as a pivot between views ensuring the consistency and the trace ability of services at different stages and levels of detail. The proposed framework has been implemented to provide a UML2 tool that helps designers in elaborating views and projecting services towards a specific platform like SCA.