Automatic Skeleton Generation For Data-Aware Service Choreographies

Service-oriented engineering is an emerging software development paradigm for distributed collaborative applications. Services are developed independently and are composed to achieve common requirements. Service choreographies define such requirements from a global perspective, based on interactions among a set of participants that are implemented as services. In this paper, we support a reliable data-aware service choreography development process through a dedicated projection. It extracts, from a choreography, a behavioral skeleton for each of its participants. The projection is valuable in a top-down approach, where developers have only to complete the skeletons with some business code in order to get a distributed application that matches the choreography requirements. The projection is also valuable in a bottom-up approach, where the skeletons can act as controllers between reused services in order to enforce the respect of the choreography. Our approach is supported with a tool that can be downloaded or used online.