Flexible SOA Lifecycle on the Cloud Using SCA

We present an integrated approach to design, monitor and manage the lifecycle of applications based on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles and capable of taking advantage of cloud computing environments. The integrated framework takes profit of publicly available open source tools and standards in an effective and coherent way, and covers the steps from business and architectural design of the application, to deployment and runtime support. We exemplify our approach with a walkthrough in a simple yet illustrative scenario.