SPACEflight — A versatile live demonstrator and teaching system for advanced service-oriented technologies

New research advances in loosely-coupled, uniformly described service-oriented systems continue to appear at a high rate. Application areas such as enterprise information systems, cloud computing and programmable web applications benefit from these developments. Yet, it is hard for researchers, developers and students to understand the combined effect of methodologies, which leads to unutilised opportunities to further accelerate the innovation. We present our proposed solution called SPACEflight. It is a free, ready-to-use demonstrator which contains a complete service platform, service engineering tools, extensions for cloud computing and service quality ensurance, and on top a user-friendly service-oriented desktop with tradeable scenario services.