Model Driven SOA

[Patrick Mclean]

Hi all, I'm having a hard time finding out how to use Provision to create our service architecture. To me this should be driven out of our BPM workflow models. But, it seems that the tool requires you to first identify services then tie them back to activities in the BPM - this seems backward to me. I would expect that as I create a tobe business workflow that new services will show up as activities between systems. It would be nice to create a hierachical logical model of the enterprise services that would define the naming and logical location of the service based on the business domain or entity that is being exposed within the activity, Perhaps their is some detailed documentation on how best to approach Model Driven SOA in the toolset? I'll I can find are marketing slides :-(. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Matt Michael]

Hi Patrick,

I'm attaching a document that utilizes EA Management modeling language that may help you in this pursuit.  There are extensive links from the capability object throughout Metastorm ProVision® and we have an approach that utilizes capabilities extensively for EA as the topic of building block models. 

Do you happen to know who your account representative is?  Also, what company do you work with?  If you have an active support contract I can put you in contact with someone who can take you further along utilizing SOA in ProVision.

Regards,

Matt Michael

[Patrick Mclean]

Thanks Matt - I've been working on our implementation and your document has helped. I'm attempting to go deeper and capture message and WSDL information as well.

[Thierry Tastet]

Hello Patrick,

For the time being, we do not support message definition (or at least not in a format which would translate nicely thru WSDL).

It's work in progress and you'll be hearing from Metastorm on improvements to our SOA support some time next year (next major release of PV might address that issue).

Thanks,

Thierry.