Dynamic Component Selection for SCA Applications

Service Oriented Computing (SOC) has gained maturity and there have been various specifications and frameworks for realization of SOC. One such specification is the Service Component Architecture (SCA), which defines applications as assembly of heterogeneous components. However, such assembly is defined once and remains static for fixed components throughout the application life-cycle. To address this problem, we have previously proposed an approach for dynamic selection of components in SCA, based on functional semantic matching and non-functional strategic matching using policy descriptions in SCA. In this paper, we extend our existing approach by providing further flexibility in component selection and present the architecture and implementation of our system. An evaluation of the system is also reported.