Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz

Entish: eLingua for
Service Description and Composition

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Abstract

A new technology for service description and composition in open and distributed environment is proposed. The technology consists of description language (called Entish) and composition protocol called entish 1.0. They are based on software agent paradigm. The description language is the contents language of the messages that are exchanged (between agents and services) according to the composition protocol. The syntax of the language as well as the message format are expressed in XML. The language and the protocol are merely specifications. To prove that the technology does work, the prototype implementation is provided. It is still under testing. However, it is available for use and evaluation via web interfaces starting with the website www.ipipan.waw.pl/mas/. The specifications were created on the basis of the requirements produced by the Service Description and Composition Working Group (www.ipipan.waw.pl/mas/sdc-wg ) of Agentcities.NET project. Related work was done by WSDL + BPEL4WS + (WS-Coordination) + (WS-Transactions), and DAML-S. Our technology is based on different principles. The language Entish is fully declarative contrary to BPEL4WS and DAML-S. A task (expressed in Entish) describes the desired static situation to be realized by the composition protocol.

Keywords : Service-Oriented Architecture, service description and composition, middleware, web services, software agents.