Comparing Architectural Styles for Service-Oriented Architectures – a REST vs. SOAP Case Study

2009 ◽  
pp. 207-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Becker ◽  
Martin Matzner ◽  
Oliver Müller
Author(s):  
Marco Massarelli ◽  
Claudia Raibulet ◽  
Daniele Cammareri ◽  
Nicolò Perino

This chapter gives a solution to design Service Oriented Architectures which defines and manages Service Level Agreements to enforce Quality of Services and achieves adaptivity at runtime. The validation of this proposed approach is performed through an actual case study in the context of the multimedia application domain.


Author(s):  
Hamza Chehili ◽  
Lionel Seinturier ◽  
Mahmoud Boufaida

The adoption of the agile methods' principles has emerged as an effective way to develop service oriented architectures as it paves the way for a better reply to the changing needs of the environment and even the customer. However, these changes may also require the evolution of the development process itself. This paper presents an agile and service-oriented software development method that combines concepts from the Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) domain and the agile software engineering one. This method provides an iterative and incremental process to deliverer business processes, implemented as an assembly of components. This leads to a faster response to the change of needs by reconfiguring the assembly of components. The method is based on a framework that implements its phases as an assembly of components to allow a dynamic reconfiguration of it in case of a development process evolution. Finally, a case study is presented to illustrate the use of the presented method.


Author(s):  
Giuseppe Di Modica ◽  
Orazio Tomarchio ◽  
Lorenzo Vita

Resource and service discovery in SOAs: A P2P oriented semantic approachAn intense standardization process is favouring the convergence of grids and Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). One of the benefits of such technological convergence is that grid resources and applications can be virtualized by services and offered through the SOA paradigm. In the broad and interoperable scenarios enabled by the SOA, involving the participation of several grid infrastructures across many administrative domains, service discovery can be a serious issue. In this paper we present a P2P-based infrastructure that leverages semantic technologies to support a scalable and accurate service discovery process. The key concept of the presented idea is the creation of an overlay network organized in several semantic groups of peers, each specialized in answering queries pertaining to specific applicative domains. Groups are formed by clustering together peers offering services that are semantically related. The architecture details of the proposed solution are presented. A system prototype has also been implemented and validated through a case study deployed on the PlanetLab testbed.


2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCOS LÓPEZ-SANZ ◽  
JUAN MANUEL VARA ◽  
ESPERANZA MARCOS ◽  
CARLOS E. CUESTA

Model-driven development is recognized as one of the most promising approaches in software engineering. Recent research in the area highlights the importance of using an explicit architectural model in this context. Since service-oriented architectures have also demonstrated to be adequate to overcome current software needs, the idea of using the model-driven approach to generate service-oriented architectural models has successfully flourished in the last years. However, the emphasis on the Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm has led to the design of architectures lacking some desirable features. Knowing the benefits provided by architectural styles, we have found that their use can help us to overcome those needs. Our goal is to obtain a service-oriented model which satisfies the requirements of the concrete architecture and complies with the constraints and vocabulary defined for a specific architectural style. To achieve this, here, we propose to use a weaving model which merges the concrete architectural model with a model of the architectural style of choice.


2012 ◽  
pp. 126-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan M. Rodriguez ◽  
Marco Crasso ◽  
Cristian Mateos ◽  
Alejandro Zunino ◽  
Marcelo Campo ◽  
...  

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services are the current trend to integrate large and distributed systems, which is a common situation in both the business and government worlds. However, within these worlds, systems are commonly written in COBOL because they were developed several decades ago. Therefore, migration of COBOL systems into service-oriented architectures becomes a necessity. Two main approaches are used to migrate COBOL systems to SOA systems: direct and indirect migration. Direct migration implies wrapping the current COBOL routines of a system with a software layer developed under a newer platform that can be used to offer Web Services. In contrast, indirect migration requires re-designing and re-implementing the COBOL routines’ functionality using a newer platform as well. In this chapter, the authors propose a novel migration approach, which takes the best of the two previous approaches. To assess the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches, this chapter presents a case study from a government agency COBOL system that has been migrated to a Web services-based system using the three approaches. As a result of having these migration attempts, the authors present the trade-off between direct and indirect migration, the resulting service interfaces quality, and the migration costs. These results also show that this new migration approach offers a good balance to the above trade-off, which makes the approach applicable to similar COBOL migration scenarios.


2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Becker ◽  
Jim Pruyne ◽  
Sharad Singhal ◽  
Andre Lopes ◽  
Dejan Milojicic

A major advantage of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is composition and coordination of loosely coupled services. Because the development lifecycles of services and clients are de-coupled, multiple service versions must be maintained to support older clients. Typically versions are managed within the SOA by updating service descriptions using conventions on version numbers and namespaces. In all cases, the compatibility among services descriptions must be evaluated, which can be hard, error-prone and costly if performed manually, particularly for complex descriptions. In this paper, the authors describe a method to automatically determine when two service descriptions are backward compatible. The authors describe a case study to illustrate version compatibility information in a SOA environment and present initial performance overheads. By automatically exploring compatibility information, a) service developers can assess the impact of proposed changes; b) proper versioning requirements can be put in client implementations guaranteeing that incompatibilities will not occur during run-time; and c) messages exchanged in the SOA can be validated to ensure that only expected messages or compatible ones are exchanged.


Author(s):  
Marijn Janssen

Service-oriented enterprise architectures have gained considerable attention of politicians and public servants as a solution for designing new applications and leveraging investments in legacy systems. Service-oriented architectures can help to share data and functionality among information systems and provide the flexibility to include existing legacy systems, which cannot be replaced easily and otherwise restrict further development. In this chapter, the design of a service-oriented architecture in public administration is explored. A case study is conducted at the Ministry of Justice, and a service-oriented architecture is designed, implemented, and evaluated. The architecture is evaluated based on a number of quality requirements. This case study shows the feasibility to replace functionality formerly offered by legacy systems and shows limitations of current technology. This chapter should lead to a greater understanding of the concept of service-oriented architectures in e-government.


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