Dynamic Provisioning and Monitoring of Stateful Services

Abstract

Abstract:While tools for service-oriented architectures promise a seamless combination of stateless basic services to new applications, reality looks different. Real-world services are wrapping stateful behavior using application-specific concepts, the monitoring is only available through vendorspecific interfaces, and service installations are bound to particular execution hosts. We present the ASG Services Infrastructure (SI) architecture as our practical solution to these real-world service integration issues. Our framework is based on established Web service standards and supports the dynamic hosting and monitoring of heterogeneous and stateful service implementations.