On-demand capacity framework

Abstract

Web service technology has generated a lot interest, but its adoption rate has been slow. This paper discusses quality of service issues which is one of the contributing factors to this slow take up, and argues that nowadays policy, which requires the service providers to ensure a certain level of QoS, is not practical and will invoke high business risks. Therefore, we introduce four innovating concepts to SOA community, and propose an extending framework to ensure on-demand capacity by decoupling classical service provider into service logic provider and QoS provider. Moreover, we present a qualitative comparison in a typical web service scenario between the model proposed, classical SOA and enhanced SOA models introduced by previous publication. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.