Use of Models and Modelling Techniques for Service Development.pdf

To appear in Proceedings of the 3rd IFIP International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government (I3E 2003) 22-25 September 2003, Guarujá, Brazil. Use of Models and Modelling Techniques for Service Development * * ** Luís Ferreira Pires , Marten van Sinderen , Cléver Ricardo Guareis de Farias , João Paulo Andrade Almeida* * University of Twente (UT) P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands {pires, sinderen, almeida}@cs.utwente.nl ** Universidade Católica de Santos (Unisantos) Rua Dr. Carvalho de Mendonça, 144 11070-906 − Santos (SP), Brazil cleverfarias@unisantos.br Abstract: E-applications are increasingly being composed from individual services that can be realized with different technologies, such as, e.g., Web Services and standard component technologies. A current trend in the development of these services is to describe their technology-independent and technology-specific aspects in separate models. A prominent development that leads this trend is the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA). An important feature of the MDA