Service Mediation and Adaptation
written by gunther gerlach-2009
The assimilation of services through service ecosystems presents major integration development and maintenance costs. Service providers need to compose their services effectively in coordination with other services if they are to engage in oncoming market opportunities and situations. Further up the supply and distribution chain, if services are to be brokered and delivered through other intermediaries (e.g., for authentication, payment, device-specific service presentations), they will need to be interfaced with service delivery components that operate in various ways. Thus, one can expect that services will have to interact with one another in ways not necessarily foreseen during their development or deployment. A key challenge in this setting is service mediation: the act of repurposing existing services so that they can interact in unforeseen manners by intercepting, storing, transforming, and routing messages going into and out of these services.
