A Service-Oriented Computing Platform

Abstract

In Service-Driven Computing, the client-server architecture describes the relationship of cooperating programs in a distributed application. The providers of a resource or service execute workloads submitted by service requestors. Web service, Grid, and Cloud Computing technologies are based on the client-server architecture. A true service-oriented architecture describes everything, anywhere, anytime as a service. This chapter presents the SORCER (Service-ORiented Computing EnviRonment) platform, which provides service-oriented modeling or programming or both (mogramming) environments within its operating system that runs front-end service-oriented mograms and dynamically manages corresponding federations of local and remote service providers. The architecture of SORCER is described with the focus on service-oriented mogramming, service context-awareness, and its operating system managing everything as a service type. A case study report illustrates how SORCER is used for a conceptual design of the next generation of efficient supersonic air vehicles.