Akhil Marwah

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services are being critically considered by most organizations today in some form or another. The adoption of SOA and Web services has gained momentum after the standardization of various aspects such as security, business process coordination, transaction management, communication protocol, registration and discovery, etc. However, one notable and practical aspect of designing, implementing, and managing services has not been tackled at a specification level. This aspect is related to the management of change and interface versions. Real-world business and infrastructure services will be dynamic and subject to change due to various issues that may range from a business rules change to service-level improvement. It is a challenging problem to manage services whose interfaces are changing, especially in the situation where t... (more)