Contemporary Research Challenges and Applications of Service Oriented Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Shahanawaj Ahamad
Author(s):  
Grace A. Lewis ◽  
Dennis B. Smith

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a viable option for systems development, systems integration, and leverage of legacy systems. Despite its positive contributions and potential, SOA has been subjected to significant hype and inflated expectations, and past research efforts in this area have been unfocused. As a result, there is a strong need for systematic and unbiased research. Based on a synthesis of two leading efforts, this chapter presents a framework of research challenges for service orientation and focuses on the topics related to the migration and evolution of service-oriented systems. The chapter reviews current progress as well as gaps in addressing challenges that are derived from the framework.


Author(s):  
Kostyantyn Kharchenko

The approach to organizing the automated calculations’ execution process using the web services (in particular, REST-services) is reviewed. The given solution will simplify the procedure of introduction of the new functionality in applied systems built according to the service-oriented architecture and microservice architecture principles. The main idea of the proposed solution is in maximum division of the server-side logic development and the client-side logic, when clients are used to set the abstract computation goals without any dependencies to existing applied services. It is proposed to rely on the centralized scheme to organize the computations (named as orchestration) and to put to the knowledge base the set of rules used to build (in multiple steps) the concrete computational scenario from the abstract goal. It is proposed to include the computing task’s execution subsystem to the software architecture of the applied system. This subsystem is composed of the service which is processing the incoming requests for execution, the service registry and the orchestration service. The clients send requests to the execution subsystem without any references to the real-world services to be called. The service registry searches the knowledge base for the corresponding input request template, then the abstract operation description search for the request template is performed. Each abstract operation may already have its implementation in the form of workflow composed of invocations of the real applied services’ operations. In case of absence of the corresponding workflow in the database, this workflow implementation could be synthesized dynamically according to the input and output data and the functionality description of the abstract operation and registered applied services. The workflows are executed by the orchestrator service. Thus, adding some new functions to the client side can be possible without any changes at the server side. And vice versa, adding new services can impact the execution of the calculations without updating the clients.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document