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Reducing Complexity in Service Development and Integration

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The continuous growth and increasing complexity of distributed systems software has produced a need for software development tools and techniques that reduce the learning requirements and complexity of building distributed systems. In this work we address reduction of complexity in service-oriented software development and present an approach and a toolkit for multi-language service development based on three building blocks: a simplified service description language, an intuitive message serialization and transport protocol, and a set of code generation techniques that provide boilerplate environments for service implementations. The toolkit is intended for use in the eScience domain and is presented along with a performance evaluation that quantifies toolkit performance against that of selected alternative toolkits and technologies for service development. Toolkit performance is found to be comparable to or improve upon the performance of evaluated technologies.

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    This paper is an invited extended version of the paper Creo: Reduced Complexity Service Development presented at CLOSER 2014.

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    Computationally intensive science in highly distributed network environments.

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The authors acknowledge Mikael Öhman, Sebastian Gröhn, and Anders Häggström for work related to the project. This work is done in collaboration with the High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) and is funded by the Swedish Government’s strategic research project eSSENCE and the Swedish Research Council (VR) under contract number C0590801 for the project Cloud Control.

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    Per-Olov Östberg & Niclas Lockner

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Östberg, PO., Lockner, N. (2015). Reducing Complexity in Service Development and Integration. In: Helfert, M., Desprez, F., Ferguson, D., Leymann, F., Méndez Munoz, V. (eds) Cloud Computing and Services Sciences. CLOSER 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 512. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25414-2_5

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