Abstract—In order to realize Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) with Web Services (WSs), a new engineering approach is required; we refer to it as Service-Oriented Software Engineering (SOSE). This approach would sketch out a method, including a process, models, languages, tools, and notations. It encompasses three dimensions: (i) services, (ii) compositions, and (iii) management of both services and compositions. The existing methods have not considered the three perspectives neither they have considered how these perspectives can be achieved together through a comprehensive approach. This paper presents an architecture, a specification, and an implementation of a CASE tool for developing and managing Service-Oriented Software (SOS). The CASE implements: (1) a metadata that represents WSs from four perspectives: description, deployment platforms, legacy systems, and composite software, and (2) a set of management artifacts built on top of the metadata. The metadata is implemented as repository, the core component of the CASE tool architecture.

Index Terms—web services; service-oriented software; approaches; metadata; case tool

Cite: Youcef Baghdadi, Bashar Alani, and Zuhoor Al-Khanjari, "Service-oriented Software Development and Management: A CASE Tool-based Approach," Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 371-378, November 2012. doi:10.4304/jetwi.4.4.371-378