Towards autonomic web services
Sherif A. Gurguis, Amir Zeid · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2005
Autonomic Computing was introduced to reduce the complexity of managing computing systems; however, the heterogeneous nature existing in most computing systems introduces some difficulty to achieve this target. Moreover, the notion of service as a computing component that seamlessly collaborates with other services in a loosely-coupled manner to perform complicated tasks was introduced by Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); and then, fertilized by Web Services that added open standards to different roles and operations involved in a community of services; however, in order to gain the expected benefits of Web Services, the latter should be able to survive in normal and abnormal conditions. Our research aims at finding a hyper solution to that two-dimensional problem by allowing both Autonomic Computing and Web Services paradigms to lend each other their distinct features. First, Web Services lend Autonomic Computing the concept of platform-independency; second, Autonomic Computing lends Web Services the attributes providing self-management. The focus of this paper will be on how the self-healing autonomic attribute can be implemented and applied using Web Services.