I really like most of the features of ARIS SOA Architect. Especially the service tree with the integrated search. But how does (would) the whole structure of the SOA Architect, which is so heavily dependant on concepts of Business Service, Capability, Software Service etc fit BPMN2 which seems (aims to be) so SOA oriented (and is so anti EA by the way)? Especially for those that would have EPC out of the picture but still would like to have consistent CIM-PIM-PSM transfomation.
The only way to get this connected right now is to use a FAD for each task (you know, capabilities, services, and such), since the spec doesn't mention any other objects and artifacts than the ones which are implemented right now ... and yes, I know that the spec allows to add additional stuff as long as you don't change the BPMN objects - I just haven't seen any other SW that allows you to do, besides some unnamed drawing tool.
Roland,
I know, like and go the FAD-way but that's not something specific to ARIS SOA Architect. And I somehow imagine that instead of showing service support you would rather assign for example a UML package directly to a Service Task that's in the workflow. But then what about service discovery? And generally, if we get the current demo scenario modelled with BPMN, how would all use cases of ARIS SOA Architect look like?
