A layered architecture for flexible Web service invocation

  • Authors:
  • Valeria De Antonellis;Michele Melchiori;Luca De Santis;Massimo Mecella;Enrico Mussi;Barbara Pernici;Pierluigi Plebani

  • Affiliations:
  • Università di Brescia, Via Brianze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy;Università di Brescia, Via Brianze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy;Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy;Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy;Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy;Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy;Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Software—Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Web service composition is emerging as an interesting approach to integrate business applications and create intra-organizational business processes. Single Web services are combined to create a complex Web service that will realize the process business logic. Once the process is created, it is executed by an orchestration engine that invokes individual Web services in the correct order. However, Web services composing the workflow sometimes become unavailable during the run-time phase, blocking process execution. This paper describes an architecture that allows the flexible orchestration of business processes. With this approach, Web services composing the process can be automatically substituted with other compatible Web services during process execution. A methodology is defined to evaluate Web service compatibility based on interface matching, in order to select substitutable Web services. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.