Title: An approach for managing web services changes

Authors: Maamar Khater, Mimoun Malki

Addresses: Evolutionary Engineering and Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (EEDIS Lab), Djillali Liabes University, Sidi Bel-Abbes, Algeria. ' Evolutionary Engineering and Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (EEDIS Lab), Djillali Liabes University, Sidi Bel-Abbes, Algeria

Abstract: The dynamic environment where organisations and providers live imposes a gradually evolving of their services to meet new needs, technological changes and requirements of these users. Therefore, the evolution of web services becomes necessary because it is inevitable that services will evolve overtime and clients will always ask for new features. Unfortunately, the current standards do not support necessary mechanisms to ensure the behaviour evolution of the web services. This problem becomes more complex for dynamic adaptation and for web service upgrade by non-backwards-compatible changes. In this paper, we present an approach to manage the behaviour evolution of web services and adapt dynamically their clients by providing a set of change operators for services and a set of adaptation rules for clients. This approach is validated within a framework proposed at the end of this paper.

Keywords: behaviour evolution; change management; change process; web services; change operators; adaptation rules.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISCM.2008.026708

International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, 2008 Vol.3 No.4, pp.314 - 326

Published online: 23 Jun 2009 *

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