Enabling a Billion of Web Services

SOA4ALL is a step towards realizing the idea of a Web of billions of Services. We are proud to work with our internationally recognized partners towards this vision.

Abstract:

Computer science is entering a new generation. The emerging generation starts by abstracting from software and sees all resources as services in a SOA. In a world of services, it is the service that counts for a customer and not the software or hardware components which implement the service. Service-oriented architectures are rapidly becoming the dominant computing paradigm. However, current SOA solutions are still restricted in their application context to being in-house solutions of companies. While service orientation is widely acknowledged for its potential to revolutionize the world of computing by abstracting from the underlying hardware and software layers, its success depends on resolving a number of fundamental challenges that SOA does not address today. SOA4All will help to realize a world where billions of parties are exposing and consuming services via advanced Web technology. SOA4ALL will provide a framework and infrastructure that integrates technical advances into a coherent and domain independent service delivery platform.

Key Facts

• Partners: ATOS ORIGIN, British Telecommunications, The Open University, SAP AG, The University Innsbruck, CEFRIEL, EBM WebSourcing, Hanival Internet Services GmbH, IBM, INRIA, ISOCO, Ontotext Lab, TIE Nederlands B.V., TXT e-Solutions Spa, Universitaet Karlsruhe , The University of Manchester
• Funded by: The 7th Framework for Research and Development of the European Commission
• Objective: transform the Web into a domain where many parties are exposing and consuming services in a transparent fashion. The project aims to provide a comprehensive framework and infrastructure that integrates technical advances into domain independent service delivery platform.
• Homepage: http://www.soa4all.org/