Interface Matching and Combining Techniques for Services Integration

TL;DR

This paper addresses the challenge of dynamically integrating services in pervasive environments by classifying interface issues and proposing a new contextual integration service and interface for improved service composition.

Contribution

It introduces a classification framework for service integration issues and presents IntegServ, a novel contextual integration service, along with the Integrable interface for service development.

Findings

Classification of service integration issues based on interfaces and techniques

Introduction of IntegServ, a contextual integration service

Proposal of the Integrable interface for service development

Abstract

The development of many highly dynamic environments, like pervasive environments, introduces the possibility to use geographically close-related services. Dynamically integrating and unintegrating these services in running applications is a key challenge for this use. In this article, we classify service integration issues according to interfaces exported by services and internal combining techniques. We also propose a contextual integration service, IntegServ, and an interface, Integrable, for developing services.