Using vector clocks to monitor dependencies among services at runtime
Daniele Romano, Martin Pinzger · 2011
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enable organizations to react to requirement changes in an agile manner and to foster the reuse of existing services. However, the dynamic nature of Service-Oriented Systems and their agility bear the challenge of properly understanding such systems. In particular, understanding the dependencies among services is a non trivial task, especially if service-oriented systems are distributed over several hosts and/or using different SOA technologies.