This paper extends the current Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to introduce a Consumer-Centric Service-Oriented Architecture (CCSOA) paradigm. The current SOA is producer-centric, because the basic idea is that service providers publish services that they produce and let the consumers to search available services to compose their applications. CCSOA focuses on consumers' publishing the services they need and even the applications they need. The service providers must produce services that are in need. This new paradigm extends the design and code sharing, and thus further improves the software productivity. This paper presents the concepts, architecture, enabling techniques, and illustrative examples.
Related white papers
Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture: Support and Optimize SOA and Web 2.0 Applications
Web 2.0 and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are among the top issues of concern for IT architects and executives. Both are poised for exponential growth over the next few years, due...
The Information Perspective of SOA Design, Part 4: The Value of Applying the Canonical Modeling Pattern in SOA
Discover the approach and value of canonical modeling in SOA design. See how the canonical data models can be aligned in SOA with canonical message models. In this fourth paper...
Getting SOA right: SOA Healthchecks
SOA Healthchecks from IBM can help you determine your SOA health so you don't end up having to perform costly remediation. Whether you're just getting started with SOA or are...
Services-Based Enterprise Integration Patterns Made Easy, Part 1: The Evolution of Basic Concepts
This series of papers explains services-based enterprise integration patterns in an easy-to-understand, step-by-step way. In this installment, Part 1 of the series, one learns about the two earliest integration patterns...
IT Manager Webcast: Application Platform: Establishing Trust in Your SOA Ecosystem (Level 200)
While many organizations are starting to benefit from Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), many are now challenged with efficiently scaling the number of services provided and the number of consumers supported through...
Information as a Service: IBM Information Server
Learn how the advent of SOA has empowered IT managers to develop a new approach to turn data into a more powerful corporate asset, and how the implementation of information...
How Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Impacts Your IT Infrastructure
This paper shows how SOA impacts the IT infrastructure - in particular, how business processes and transactions are handled differently in an SOA environment than in traditional application architecture. The...

