A Seamless Modeling Approach for Service-Oriented Information Systems

Model-driven development (MDD) promises to support software developers to cope with the complexity of nowadays IT-systems, and to raise productivity and quality of software systems. To successfully apply a MDD approach in the industrial practice, it has to be carefully customized to the specific needs of the enterprise regarding the target software architecture. This paper describes a seamless MDD approach which has been developed and applied in industry for constructing service-oriented distributed enterprise information systems. This includes a technique for deriving a component design from the overlying business process.