Using UML Service Components to Represent the SOA Architecture Pattern: Help Stakeholders to Better Understand Service Components That Comprise an SOA

As an architect, one is often challenged - by client enterprise architects and IT stakeholders - to articulate Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) patterns and service components in a nonproprietary, product-agnostic way. In this paper, use Unified Modeling Language (UML) models to describe the SOA architecture pattern and its associated service components. One also learns about the service components of the SOA pattern in the context of industry-standard UML formats to help stakeholders to better understand the components that constitute an SOA.