Bridging the gap between service-oriented and object-oriented approach in information systems development

Service oriented architecture is nowadays one of the most promising concepts in the area of information systems development. The advantages of this approach are obvious. Considering software development methodologies, the most popular ones in the last decade were based on object-oriented techniques. The goal of this paper is to investigate the possibilities of extending object-oriented methodology for information systems development by service oriented approach as well as to examine benefits, which it brings. We propose an augmentation of the object-oriented methodology BORM in order to incorporate service-oriented techniques into information systems development. To demonstrate advantages of our approach, an experimental life cycle of information system development was performed and its features evaluated.