Service composition in service-oriented architecture

Abstract

The platform-neutral and self-contained natures of Web services enable service providers and application developers to engage other Web services in order to develop new value-added services and complete higher-order business transactions by using existing elementary or complex services, possibly offered by different service providers. In order to complete service composition, in this paper, composition service is described in a chart diagram form, a series of approaches and guidelines are presented based on analyzing composition service types, relationships between services, flow model and collaboration relationship agreements. In addition, an integrated construction framework is presented to manage the entire life-cycle of composition service.