Request distribution in hybrid processing environments

Abstract

In recent years the evolution of software architectures led to the rising prominence of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concept. This architecture paradigm facilitates building flexible service systems. The services can be deployed in distributed environments, executed on different hardware and software platforms, reused and composed into complex services. In the paper a SOA request analysis and distribution architecture for hybrid environments is proposed. The requests are examined in accordance to the SOA request description model. The functional and non-functional request requirements in conjunction with monitoring of execution and communication links performance data are used to distribute requests and allocate the services and resources. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.