Enterprise services application program development model

A services toolkit for architecting an enterprise service comprising:

• a service creation component for creating one or more services that define said enterprise application, each service created in accordance with a service definition modeling one of a plurality service providers having one of a plurality of service provider types, the service definition conforming to a standard common for differing service provider types, the differing service provider types comprising at least two types selected from:
• access protocols;
• software assets;
• resource adapted EIS services;
• flow compositions, each flow defining a service from one or more other services;
• and transformers each transformer mapping one or more input messages of a particular service to an output message of the particular service;
• and
• a service deployment component for deploying the one or more services, each deployed in accordance with an access definition sufficient to access the service;
• wherein the services toolkit is adapted to communicate with an integrated development environment to assist with architecting the enterprise application.

A computer program product embodied in a computer readable medium for providing instructions and data to a computer system executing an integrated development environment (IDE) for architecting an enterprise service application, said instructions and data defining a services toolkit that, when operated on said computer system, adapts said IDE to:

• create one or more services that define said enterprise application, each service created in accordance with a service definition modeling one of a plurality service providers having one of a plurality of service provider types, the service definition conforming to a standard common for differing service provider types;
• and
• deploy the one or more services, each deployed in accordance with an access definition sufficient to access the service;
• wherein the differing service provider types comprise at least two types selected from:
• access protocols;
• software assets;
• resource adapted EIS services;
• flow compositions, each flow defining a service from one or more other services;
• and transformers each transformer mapping one or more input messages of a particular service to an output message of the particular service.

An integrated development environment (IDE) for architecting an enterprise service comprising:

• first means for describing a service interface to a service;
• second means for describing a service implementation to the service, said service implementation binding the service interface to one of a plurality service providers having one of a plurality of service provider types, the second means conforming to a standard common for differing service provider types, the differing service provider types comprising at least two types selected from:
• access protocols;
• software assets;
• resource adapted EIS services;
• flow compositions, each flow defining a service from one or more other services;
• and transformers each transformer mapping one or more input messages of a particular service to an output message of the particular service;
• third means for generating a service from said first and second means;
• fourth means for describing a protocol sufficient to access the service;
• and
• fifth means for deploying the service in accordance with the fourth means.