STUDY OF WEB SERVICE OFFERINGS INFRASTRUCTURE (WSOI)
Yi Zeng · Journal of Jiujiang University · 2006
While the recent technologies for XML (Extensible Markup Language) Web Services are an important step towards the goal of application-to-application (A2A) and business-to-business (B2B) integration, they do not address all management-related issues. Web Service Offerings Language (WSOL) enables formal specification of important management information-classes of service (modeled asservice offerings), various types of constraint (functional, QoS, access rights), and management statements(e. g., prices, penalties)-for XML Web Services. WSOI enables monitoring and accounting of WSOL service offerings and their dynamic manipulation. To support monitoring of WSOL service offerings, we have extended the Apache Axis open-source SOAP engine with WSOI-specific modules, data structures, and management ports.