Towards Self-Composing, Prioritized and Consequential Services

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is emerging as a very significant approach to enterprise computing. SOA is seen as a major impetus to providing agility and consumer centric approach to enterprise computing. Integral to the service oriented architecture approach is the concept of a "service", a service provider and a service consumer. The services in SOA context are realized by software or software in conjunction with business processes. It is believed that significant value can be derived by designing intelligent services. Benefit includes overall performance and flexibility. Intelligent services are those that are able to compose themselves based on certain rules and configurations, able to come into existence only when required and only for a required duration, and are prioritized. It is found out that these attributes make the services extremely useful, and enhance the overall performance of the SOA deployment