Registry support for core component evolution

The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) provides a conceptual approach, named the Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS), for creating business document models. These business document models are essential for defining service interfaces of service-oriented systems and are typically stored in a registry for enabling easy storage, search, and retrieval of these artifacts. However, in such a highly dynamic environment with ever-changing market demands, business partners are confronted with the need to constantly adapt their systems. This implies revising conceptual business document models as well as adapting the corresponding service interface definitions resulting in a tedious and often error-prone task when done manually. In this paper, we present a framework for dealing with these types of evolution in service-oriented systems. Having such a framework at hand, supports business partners in coping with the evolution of business document models, as well as in adapting the corresponding service interface definitions automatically. Furthermore, we present a prototypical implementation and an evaluation of the framework proposed.