Modeling support for mobile ambients in service oriented architecture

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a promising approach for designing and developing mobile applications. However, SOA concepts need to be combined with mobile principles to fully accommodate their requirements. Previously, a metamodel called Ambient-SoaML has been defined, which combines the Service Oriented Architecture Modeling Language (SoaML) and Mobile Ambients concepts inspired from Ambient Calculus. In this paper, a modeling tool that supports designing service oriented architecture of mobile systems based on Ambient-SoaML is presented. The tool allows users to graphically design Ambient-SoaML architectures and ensures that they are correctly built. The tool is an eclipse plug-in and has been implemented following Model Driven Architecture (MDA) principles and associated technologies. A running example is used to illustrate the features of the tool.