Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/KSWmyKK At Your Service By: Elisabetta Di Nitto Publisher: The MIT Press Print ISBN: 9780262042536, 0262042533 eText ISBN: 9780262310079, 0262310074 Copyright year: 2009 Format: PDF Available from $ 59.99 USD SKU 9780262310079 Service-Oriented Applications and Architectures (SOAs) have captured the interest of industry as a way to support business-to-business interaction, and the SOA market grew by $4.9 billion in 2005. SOAs and in particular service-oriented computing (SOC) represent a promising approach in the development of adaptive distributed systems. With SOC, applications can open themselves to services offered by third parties and accessed through standard, well-defined interfaces. The binding between the applications and the services can be, in this context, extremely loose--enabling the ad hoc creation of new services when the need arises. This book offers an overview of some current research in the field, presenting the results of eighteen research projects funded by the European Community's Information Society Technologies Program (IST). The projects, collaborations between industry and academia, have produced practical, achievable results that point the way to real-world applications and future research. The chapters address such issues as requirement analysis, design, governance, interoperability, and the dependability of systems made up of components owned by third parties. The results are presented in the context of two roadmaps for research, one developed by European industry involved in software development and the other by researchers working in the service area. The contributors report first on the Infrastructure Layer, then (in the bulk of the book) on the Service Integration Layer, the Semantic Layer, and finally on the issues that cut across the different layers. The book concludes by looking at ongoing research on both roadmaps.
