Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a stage in the evolution of application development and/or

integration. It defines a way to make software components reusable using the interfaces.

Service discovery is the process of automatically detecting devices and services on

a network. Service discovery protocol (SDP) is a networking standard that
accomplishes detection of networks by identifying resources.

There are three components to Service Discovery: the service provider, the service
consumer and the service registry.

1) The Service Provider registers itself with the service registry when it enters the system
and de-registers itself when it leaves the system.

2) The Service Consumer gets the location of a provider from the service registry, and
then connects it to the service provider.

3) The Service Registry is a database that contains the network locations of service
instances. The service registry needs to be highly available and up to date so clients can
go through network locations obtained from the service registry. A service registry
consists of a cluster of servers that use a replication protocol to maintain consistency.
 Service selection in SOA is a dynamic environment. It requires huge number of trials for
reinforcement learning. The cost of learning by constructing system in the real
environment and getting feedback is high. Most conventional reinforcement learning
methods assume a static environment.

Network discovery is the process that allows computers and devices to find one another
when they are on the same network. It is the initial step system administrators take when
they want to map and monitor their network infrastructure.

A service configuration is a specification that describes different aspects of a managed

service.

The Service Management API methods typically involved in managing service

configurations are:

 Using services.configs.create or services.configs.submit to submit service configurations.

 Using services.configs.list and services.configs.get to retrieve service configurations.
 Using services.generateConfigReport to get a change report between two service
configurations.

A service announcement is a message in the public interest disseminated by the

media without charge to raise public awareness and change behavior.

SOC
The Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm refers to the set of concepts, principles, and
methods that represent computing in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in which software
applications are constructed based on independent component services with standard
interfaces.
OSGi
promotes open specifications for the delivery of
managed services into networked environments such as
homes & automobiles.

Initial market for OSGi was home services gateways, e.g.,

in video broadcast set top boxes, broadband modems.

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