Communities of web service registries : construction and management

Mohamed Sellami (1, 2, 3) , Olfa Bouchaala (1, 2, 4, 3) , Walid Gaaloul (1, 2, 3) , Samir Tata (1, 2, 3)

1 TSP - INF - Département Informatique
2 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
4 ReDCAD - Research Unit on Development and Control of Distributed Applications

The last few years have seen a democratization in the use of Internet technologies, mainly Web services, for electronic B2B transactions. This has triggered an increase in the number of companies' Web service registries. In this paper, we propose to use communities as a means to organize Web service registries in such a context. We provide an automatic and implicit approach to create communities of Web service registries using registries' WSRD descriptions. We also define the needed management operations to ensure the communities consistency during a registry/community life-cycle. Experiments we have made show the feasibility and validity of our community creation approach as well as the specified managing operations.

Mots clés: Service oriented computing; Organization of Web service registries; Communities of registries; Managing communities of registries

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Web

Mohamed Sellami, Olfa Bouchaala, Walid Gaaloul, Samir Tata. Communities of web service registries : construction and management. Journal of Systems and Software, 2013, 86 (3), pp.835-853. ⟨10.1016/j.jss.2012.11.019⟩. ⟨hal-00806916⟩