Service Mosaic: A Model-Driven Framework for Web Services Life-Cycle Management

Although Web services provide abstractions, for simplifying integration at lower levels of the interaction stacks, they don't yet help simplify integration at higher abstraction levels such as,business-level interaction protocols. Using a model-driven framework for Web services life-cycle management, the authors help facilitate the scalable development and maintenance, of service-oriented applications by analyzing and managing Web service business protocols. Instead of using simple black and-white measures,they identify different classes of protocol compatibility and replaceability. They implemented this framework in a prototype platform called Service Mosaic.