A Versatile and Scalable Everything-as-a-Service Registry and Discovery

Abstract

Networked humans and autonomous systems rely increasingly on service-oriented architectures. Conventional systems often focus on digitally delivered web services or on business services with varying degrees of formalisation. According to service integration principles, the service registry as the pivotal point between providers and consumers determines the types of services which can be found and delivered. With the growing importance of cloud computing topics in research and industry, more generic service models, description languages and registry architectures are proposed to extend the breadth towards truly reusable Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) registration entries. Despite the proposals, there is a shortage of capable and extensible XaaS registries. In this paper, we present such a system and share our experience in using it for service-related experiments.