A Model-Driven Approach to Dynamic and Adaptive Service Brokering Using Modes

摘要

Industry and academia are exploring ways to exploit the services paradigm to assist in the challenges of software self-management. In this paper we present a novel approach which aims to bring these two fields closer by specifying the requirements and capabilities within a UML2 model architecture style and illustrating how these model elements are used to generate specifications for dynamic runtime service brokering given different modes of a software system. The approach is implemented in a tool suite integrated into the Eclipse IDE with a prototype runtime service broker engine.