Toward service orchestration through software capability profile

Abstract

Open-source applications are a gold mine of potential functions for reuse. However, the difficulty lies in the identification and characterization of these functionalities to meet specific business needs. In this work, we aim to decompose and externalize functionalities from open-source business applications for service orchestration. We propose a solution for characterizing a functionality in a standardized and readable way. Then we propose an automated process based on ISO 16100 capability profile, to externalize the characterized functionalities as RESTful APIs. As a result, we expose reusable components to be used for service orchestration in response to a specific business need.