Traditional IT service-deployment technologies are based on scripts and configuration files, which have a limited ability to express dependencies and verify configurations, resulting in hard-to-use and erroneous system configurations. Emerging language- and model-based tools promise to address these deployment challenges, but their benefits aren't yet clearly established. The authors compare manual, script-, language-, and model-based deployment solutions in terms of scale, complexity, expressiveness, and barriers to first use.
Index Terms:
service-oriented computing, SOC, script files, configuration files
Citation:
Vanish Talwar, Dejan Milojicic, Qinyi Wu, Calton Pu, Wenchang Yan, Gueyoung Jung, "Approaches for Service Deployment," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 70-80, Mar./Apr. 2005, doi:10.1109/MIC.2005.32