WIRE—Web service Interface Revision Environment

Upgrading a service in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can be costly and inefficient. ATC-NY is developing WIRE, a framework and toolset to efficiently manage version problems in a large distributed network of services. To determine feasibility in Phase I, we will first create versioning support for WSDL, then implement SOAP web services which will use our WSDL versioning scheme, create translation components to translate old requests, and finally create a prototype management system to efficiently launch and manage a large distribution of services.

To provide an easy look-up method for requestors, WIRE's toolset will also automatically update UDDI registries with new service versions and URI locations. In Phase I we will focus specifically on SOAP web services using WSDL interface descriptions, but WIRE will be designed to support a wide range of current SOA interfaces. WIRE will bring support for managing version problems in a large distributed network of services. With WIRE, administrators can create and manage SOA service revisions efficiently and with low cost.