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This article investigates the application of the service-oriented
architectural style in the context of large organizations. It
introduces an architectural reference framework that allows for
a business process-centered development of composite applications.
The framework groups artifacts of similar abstraction
levels as well as concerns at five distinguished layers. This way,
the service-oriented principles of abstraction and autonomy
can be respected when designing applications. The layers also
correspond to phases of a design methodology and cover the
aspects of composite applications from process-centered orchestration,
over transactional coordination to data transformation
and connectivity. Based on the framework this article shows
as well how an integration design methodology can be used
to leverage the application systems in the context of a given
business process.