scholarly journals Raising resilience of web service dependent repository systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-346
Author(s):  
Tomasz Miksa ◽  
Rudolf Mayer ◽  
Andreas Rauber

Purpose – This paper aims to address the issue of long-term stability of services and systems depending on service-oriented architecture that has become a popular architecture in systems development and is often implemented using Web services. However, the dependency, especially on externally provided services, can impact the reliability of a system. This is often caused by the loose coupling also implying a less stringent policy for change management and notifications. Therefore, the authors characterise the types of changes that can happen in remote services and propose the concept of resilient web services (RWSs) as an example on how to upgrade existing services to better support the long-term stability of services and systems. Design/methodology/approach – Having analysed several use cases where systems broke because of external dependencies not correctly maintained, the authors derived requirements for RWSs. Findings – By means of a prototype implementation and evaluation of this solution in a case study, the feasibility of the approach was verified. Several scenarios of changes in WSs were simulated, correctly identified and responded to. Originality/value – The authors propose a set of extensions to existing standards such as Web Services Description Language to improve the long-term availability of services in SOAs. A prototype implementation was developed for service monitoring and RWSs.

Kybernetes ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kushal Anjaria ◽  
Arun Mishra

Purpose Any computing architecture cannot be designed with complete confidentiality. As a result, at any point, it may leak the information. So, it is important to decide leakage threshold in any computing architecture. To prevent leakage more than the predefined threshold, quantitative analysis is helpful. This paper aims to provide a method to quantify information leakage in service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based Web services. Design/methodology/approach To visualize the dynamic binding of SOA components, first, the orchestration of components is modeled. The modeling helps to information-theoretically quantify information leakage in SOA-based Web services. Then, the paper considers the non-interference policy in a global way to quantify information leakage. It considers not only variables which interfere with security sensitive content but also other architectural parameters to quantify leakage in Web services. To illustrate the attacker’s ability, a strong threat model has been proposed in the paper. Findings The paper finds that information leakage can be quantified in SOA-based Web services by considering parameters that interfere with security sensitive content and information theory. A hypothetical case study scenario of flight ticket booking Web services has been considered in the present paper in which leakage of 18.89 per cent information is calculated. Originality/value The paper shows that it is practically possible to quantify information leakage in SOA-based Web services. While modeling the SOA-based Web services, it will be of help to architects to identify parameters which may cause the leakage of secret contents.


Author(s):  
Faîçal Felhi ◽  
Jalel Akaichi

Real time impact in many applications is the subject of a recent field of studies in information systems. Web services are a solution for the integration of distributed information systems that are autonomous, heterogeneous and auto adaptable to the context. This impact can resolve many problems in different systems based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web services. In this paper, the authors are interested in defining an approach to provide the different needs of self-adaptability of SOA to the context based on workflow, define the real time goal in their approach and show the feasibility and performance evaluation of their approach in an ambulance trajectory case study.


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.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 1597
Author(s):  
Abdessalam Messiaid ◽  
Farid Mokhati ◽  
Rohallah Benaboud ◽  
Hajer Salem

Service-oriented architecture provides the ability to combine several web services in order to fulfil a user-specific requirement. In dynamic environments, the appearance of several unforeseen events can destabilize the composite web service (CWS) and affect its quality. To deal with these issues, the composite web service must be dynamically reconfigured. Dynamic reconfiguration may be enhanced by avoiding the invocation of degraded web services by predicting QoS for the candidate web service. In this paper, we propose a dynamic reconfiguration method based on HMM (Hidden Markov Model) states to predict the imminent degradation in QoS and prevent the invocation of partner web services with degraded QoS values. PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) and SFLA (Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm) are used to improve the prediction efficiency of HMM. Through extensive experiments on a real-world dataset, WS-Dream, the results demonstrate that the proposed approach can achieve better prediction accuracy. Moreover, we carried out a case study where we revealed that the proposed approach outperforms several state-of-the-art methods in terms of execution time.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Bashkim Idrizi ◽  
Mirdon Kurteshi

The purpose of research to determine and contribute in more efficient services to geoinformation stakeholders, as well as to give positive impact on increasing income in geo business sector, voluntary based web system for online usage of geoinformation in Kosovo has been developed. The method used was puting in to one place many sourcec via WMS and WFS services, by creating thematic SDI, in order to have online system with dynamic data comming from official databases with update from last day on 5 pm. System is open for usage by all interested parts, however official registration is required. It contains geoinformation from many databases such as cadastral, orthophoto, municipal, and basemaps from open layers. The results show that the system is extendable and it is permanently including new datasets based on the user requirements. 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