Service Contract Perspectives UPMS Submission team March 2007

SOA provides a framework for matching needs and capabilities and for combining capabilities to address needs Consumer defines the needs or service requirements Provider defines the capabilities or services Matching needs and capabilities means connecting compatible consumers and providers –Provider provides capabilities and how to use them –Consumer has requirements that can be fulfilled by provider capabilities Connected consumers and providers enter into an agreed upon contract for meeting needs with capabilities

Combining Capabilities to address needs requires an assembly Consumers and/or providers may be defined independently and may have no common ownership Does provider meet consumer’s needs? That is, is it legal to connect: the provider’s provided service to the consumer’s consumed service? To answer this, we need to determine if the service ports are compatible

Consumer defines the needs or service requirements The type of the consumed service port defines the consumer’s requirements through that port Behaviors of the consumer warrant that they will interact through the consumed service port in a manner that is compatible with the port’s type

Provider defines the capabilities or services The type of the provided service port defines the provider’s capabilities through that port Behaviors of the provider warrant that they will interact through the provided service port in a manner that is compatible with that port’s type Matching consumer needs with provider capabilities is determining if the connected service ports are compatible ?

Service Interfaces define the needs and requirements Service interfaces are used to type service ports Service interfaces can be given from a number of perspectives –Consumer: consumer-centered –Provider: provider-centered –Both, or the interaction between Consumer and Provider: interaction-centered

consumer-centric Describes the service from the perspective of the consumer’s requirements Any number of providers may be used as long as the meet the consumer’s requirements Service Interface is used to type the consumer’s service port Providers’ types are any types compatible with the consumer’s requirements

Consumer-centric service interface The Provider can be any type that conforms to the consumer requirements Provider is the simplest conformant service interface Provider could realize or use other interfaces as well or extend the required and provided interfaces with additional capabilities not used by the consumer

Service participants that provide and consume the service

provider-centric Describes the service from the perspective the provided functional capabilities Typical of SOA publish/find/bind Any number of consumers may participate as long as they meet the provider’s service protocol Service interface is used to type the provider’s service port Consumer’s type is any type compatible with the provider’s protocol

Provider-centric Service Interface Consumer can be any type that conforms to the provided service Consumer may not use all of the provider capabilities But must use the ones it does according to the protocol

Same Service Interface using an Activity The activity partitions represent the roles in the Provider They specify what part the operations are invoked on That is, they specify the target input pins

Service participants that provide and consume the service

Interaction-centric Neither the consumer or provider is the central focus Instead it’s the interaction between them Service contract describes roles, responsibilities and interactions on consumers and providers Service consumer is typed by consumer role type Service provider is typed by provider role type

Interaction-centric Service Contract

Service participants that provide and consume the service Note: The required interfaces don’t show up in the picture but they should

Notice the similarity All three solutions show the same assembly of components The protocol is only defined once in all cases All three have exactly the same semantics In all cases, the connected consumer and provider ports must be compatible and follow the protocol All three use collaborations to specify requirements for choreographing services to accomplish some end All three could be specified at the same time and simply need to be conformant