An Agent-Based Approach for Binding Synchronization of Web Services

Abstract

Web services technology is a new solution of communication between applications over the Web. Currently, this technology has gained a suitable degree of maturity and a widespread adoption, especially in business community, as it is used to publish easily business functions for remote execution. To provide such capability, service consumers search public business registries, find the requested Web service and then bind that service. For subsequent uses of the same Web service, and to reduce time and effort of its re-invocation, service consumer can save locally binding details of that service in his local business repository. An important issue arising from this situation is how to synchronize conveniently and efficiently such details with original ones whenever the Web service is updated. This fact may disrupt the local binding of that service. To deal with this issue, we propose in this paper an agent-based approach for synchronizing bindings of Web services to maintain their consistency and sustainable use.