MSI Services Community: A Synthesized Platform for Services Lifecycle Management

Since the 21st century, modern service industry has mushroomed around the world, and the application systems in modern service industry are usually built based on the reuse of other third party services in a distributed and loose-coupled way. Consequently, there will be a greater need for the provisioning and lifecycle management of services. In this paper, we analyze the drawbacks of current service repository, propose a framework for services lifecycle management with many capabilities covered, including services registration and annotation with semantic information, flexible categorization and clustering of services, accurate and efficient services query and matchmaking based on interface and behavioral semantics, service orchestration and verification, and service execution and monitoring. The framework is implemented as a platform called MSI services community, and applied and verified in a test bed of AliSoft service integration platform.