Web Service Deployment and Management with UPnP

Abstract

Web service gateway [1] developed by IBM Corporation provides a single point of access and validation of web service requests. However, it doesn't reduce the complexity of web services deployment and management from the intranet’s point of view. It is necessary to let web service gateway knows what happens to the supporting web service servers in the intranet to archive rapid deployment of web services. Therefore, a mechanism using UPnP protocol [2] to exchange information between web service gateway and web service server is proposed. With this mechanism, web services can be deployed rapidly and flexibly as the number of intranet business applications is growing now a day. Besides, web services load balance will be automatically achieved with this mechanism. Furthermore, this idea can also be applied on the SOA-based (Service-oriented architecture) [3] system. SOA components will spontaneously find available bindings in the intranet without complex configurations and even combine other SOA components to a new integrated service self-acting.