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Domain-Specific Languages for Service-Oriented Architectures: An Explorative Study

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Towards a Service-Based Internet (ServiceWave 2008)

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Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are an important software development approach for many service-oriented architectures (SOAs). They promise to model the various SOA concerns in a suitable way for the various technical and non-technical stakeholders of a SOA. However, so far the research on SOA DSLs concentrates on novel technical contributions, and not much evidence or counter-evidence for the claims associated to SOA DSLs has been provided. In this paper, we present a qualitative, explorative study that provides an initial analysis of a number of such claims through a series of three prototyping experiments in which each experiment has developed, analyzed, and compared a set of DSLs for process-driven SOAs. Our result is to provide initial evidence for a number of popular claims about SOA DSLs which follow the model-driven software development (MDSD) approach, as well as a list of design trade-offs to be considered in the design decisions that must be made when developing a SOA DSL.

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    Ernst Oberortner, Uwe Zdun & Schahram Dustdar

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Oberortner, E., Zdun, U., Dustdar, S. (2008). Domain-Specific Languages for Service-Oriented Architectures: An Explorative Study. In: Mähönen, P., Pohl, K., Priol, T. (eds) Towards a Service-Based Internet. ServiceWave 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5377. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89897-9_14

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