Service vs. Process

The services in any SOA ecosystem must demonstrate following traits:
• Compose-ability
• Statelessness
• Context unawareness
• Discoverability over network
• Reusability
• Decoupling of service implementation and contract/interface
• Adherence to standards
The driver of SOA ecosystem is creating application with fast pace. This driver is achieved exploiting above mentioned traits. With maturity, process also exposed as services to realize bigger and complex processes. This usage forces exposed processes to loose statelessness, context unawareness with varying degree. Now the dilemma creeps in, is architecture deviating from basic tenants of service design.