Ensuring sustainability of web services dependent processes
Tomasz Miksa, Rudolf L. Mayer, Andreas Rauber · International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering · 2015
High dependence on web services and service–oriented architecture affects not only business solutions, but also scientific research. Web services may be delivered by third parties, and thus are candidates for outsourcing. However, they represent a source of risks, which can jeopardise the robustness of processes. Hence, there is a need for actions which can contribute to the mitigation of possible threats to the continuity of processes. In this paper, risk affecting processes are classified, followed by a discussion about particular changes stemming from web services. Three distinct approaches allowing improvements are described: a newly proposed web services monitoring framework supported by a software solution, the concept of resilient web services, which specifies new design requirements for web services, and digital preservation strategies, which apart from long–term benefits can support sustainability of currently running processes.