Towards Introducing and Implementation of SOA Design Antipatterns

Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is an emerging distributed computing technology that is set to replace the existing ways of building software. Dissatisfactory performance of SOA projects has stimulated the developers to analyze the SOA worst practices or antipatterns. Our research aimed at identifying these wrong practices in implementation of SOA, i.e. antipatterns. In this paper, four antipatterns SOA==SOAP, using plain WSDL, web service discovery only through UDDI, and service for an application have been identified and presented in SOA antipattern template. These antipatterns are related to the use of SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and basic service definition, which initially seemed to be correct but later resulted into reduced performance benefits.