Web服务组合方法综述

将分布在Internet中的Web服务进行无缝集成能帮助企业高效的开发分布式应用,实现企业异质异构资源的快速融合,达到企业服务增值的目的。目前服务组合的研究得到了学术界和工业界的广泛关注,提出了众多的服务组合方法。本文根据服务组合目标任务的不同将这些方法分成业务流程驱动的服务组合方法和问题求解的服务组合方法两大类,就当前主要的服务组合方法进行介绍,最后提出服务组合技术发展所面临的问题和今后的趋势。

A survey of Web service composition methods

With the emergence of technologies and standards supporting the development of Web services, more and more services are becoming available on the Internet. Composing existing services to obtain new functionality becomes essential for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications. Research on service composition has attracted many researchers’ attention. A lot of service composition methods were proposed. This paper gives an overview of the research on service composition methods. It divides those methods into two categories： business-process-driven methods and task-solve-oriented methods; and then introduces the current methods in details. Finally, it points out the future direction of service composition technology.