Explanation/Reference:

The Oracle Service Engineering Framework is an engineering approach for delivering projects within an SOA environment The Service Engineering Framework addresses activities at both the program and project scope to consider the requirements of the business outside of the scope of a single project.
Topics covered at the program scope include:
* SOA Requirements Management - Provides a process for harvesting requirements in a manner that naturally facilitates service identification and discovery.
* Service Identification & Discovery - Establishes the procedures around identifying Service candidates, as well as discovering reuse candidates from the existing Service catalog. Takes the process from identification and discovery, through the justification processes required to determine if an existing Service can be viable for reuse in the proposed manner, or if the proposed Service Candidate should be realized as a shared Service.
* Service Release Planning - Provides the groundwork necessary for planning for project and Service deliveries within an SOA Topics covered at the project scope include:
* Service Definition -
* Service Design -
* Service Implementation - Provides the guidelines for effectively and efficiently developing shared Services.
* Service Testing -
* Service Deployment - Defines the guidelines and practices that need to be considered when deploying Services into a shared environment.
* Service OA&M -
Note:
The primary goal of service-oriented integration is to better leverage existing system within the IT environment by applying service-oriented principles. Ultimately, the goal is to enable the assembly of composite applications, with little or no custom coding, that include capabilities sourced from existing systems. Composite applications are applications that pull together data, functionality, and process from multiple existing sources to solve a business problem or create new business value.
Service-oriented integration is the mechanism to expose existing sources of data, functionality, and process so that those sources can be readily consumed by a composite application