Web Services Management Infrastructure for Multi-Platform Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity of managing and monitoring web services, which are based on various core technologies like SOAP, WSDL, and XML, and built on different software development platforms, hinders their effective use within organizations due to the lack of comprehensive management and monitoring tools.
Innovation Solution
A web services management system that provides a unified infrastructure for logging, security, Service-Level Agreement (SLA) management, monitoring, and notification, featuring a security unit, logging unit, web service management unit, and user interface, with distributed platforms and components that facilitate access and management across different technology platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If web services are built on different software development platforms (J2EE, Microsoft.net) using various core technologies (SOAP, WSDL, XML), then technology diversity and platform independence are improved, but system complexity and management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a service registry and service repository as intermediary components that mediate between diverse web service platforms and service consumers. These intermediaries provide a standardized interface for service discovery, registration, and management, thereby reducing the complexity of managing multi-platform web services while maintaining platform independence.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements universal service management components including a service registry, service repository, and common service interface that can handle multiple web service technologies (SOAP, WSDL, XML) and platforms (J2EE, Microsoft.net) through a single unified system, thereby managing diversity through universality.
2Reliability
If comprehensive management and monitoring tools are implemented for web services, then service management capability and monitoring accuracy are improved, but system complexity and implementation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the web service management system into distinct functional modules including service registry, service repository, service interface, and monitoring components. This segmentation allows each module to be developed, deployed, and maintained independently, reducing implementation complexity while providing comprehensive management capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces management intermediaries such as service registry and service repository that simplify the implementation of comprehensive monitoring and management by providing standardized interfaces and abstraction layers between the diverse web service implementations and the management functions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If web services are deployed across distributed platforms, then system scalability and deployment flexibility are improved, but security management and access control difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces security intermediaries including service registry and service repository that centralize security management and access control policies. These intermediaries mediate between distributed service platforms and security requirements, providing unified authentication, authorization, and policy enforcement across the distributed system while maintaining deployment flexibility.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a system and method for managing web services. The described exemplary system and method provides an infrastructure for managing various aspects of publishing and using web services, such as logging, security, monitoring, SLA management, service level metrics and notification.