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Title

Representing service-relationships as first class entities in service orchestrations

Author(s)

Kapuruge, Malinda;  Han, Jun;  Colman, Alan

Abstract

Service orchestration approaches are widely used to composing multiple business services (partner services) into a business process to achieve a particular business objective. The business relationships captured in such a service orchestration are primarily those between the partner services and the business process itself. This however results in tight-coupling between processes and partner services and inadequate capturing of relationships between partner services that participate in an orchestration. These limitations create problems concerning the stability and runtime adaptability of a service orchestration. To address these limitations, we propose in this paper an approach that represents the service-relationships as first-class entities in service orchestrations during design-time and runtime. It provides the required stability and improves the runtime adaptability for service orchestrations amidst changing business requirements. A novel process enactment platform supporting the approach has been implemented by further extending the Apache Axis2 Web service engine.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Lecture Notes in Computer Science: proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2012), Paphos, Cyprus, 28-30 November 2012 / X. Sean Wang, Isabel Cruz, Alex Delis and Guangyan Huang (eds.), Vol. 7651, pp. 257-270

Publication year

2012

FOR Code(s)

08 Information and Computing Sciences

Keyword(s)

Adaptability;  Service orchestration;  Service-relationships;  Stability

Publisher

Springer

ISSN

0302-9743 (series ISSN)

ISBN

9783642350627, 3642350623

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35063-4_19

Copyright

Copyright © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive version of the publication is available at www.springer.com.

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