A systematic review on service-oriented reference models and service-oriented reference architectures

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has received increasing attention by providing low coupling, reuse, productivity, and a better understanding of the business domain. However, there are still challenges in creating quality solutions using services. In this context, based on SOA, reference models and reference architectures have been proposed to support the understanding, development, and standardization in the development of service-oriented systems. Considering the relevance of SOA, as well as the lack of a complete panorama about these models and architectures, this paper aims at presenting a detailed and analytical view about the establishment and use of these models and architectures. For this, we conducted a systematic review, which is a technique coming from Evidence-Based Software Engineering. As main results, we observed a recent increase in the number of work regarding reference models and reference architectures based on SOA, including models and architectures for different domains. Furthermore, based on the presented view, we identified interesting and important perspectives for future research.

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