1. A method of consuming a Component Business Model (CBM) Heat Map for Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) based solution development, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a CBM Heat Map; at a first converting step, automatically converting the tabular representation of the CBM Heat Map to a Unified Modeling Language (UML) representation; and subsequent to the first converting step, at a second converting step, converting the UML representation of the CBM Heat Map to a first iteration of input for SOA solution development; and wherein the first converting step comprises the following sub-steps: parsing the CBM Heat Map; retrieving a plurality of CBM elements; processing the plurality of CBM elements; identifying a plurality of UML elements that respectively correspond to the plurality of CBM elements; and forming the plurality of UML elements into the UML representation of the CBM heat map.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the second converting step is performed using service oriented modeling and architecture (SOMA).