Service oriented architecture service dependency determination

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8996779-B2
Application number	US-201313915761-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 12, 2013
Priority date	Jun 12, 2013
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

Service dependency is determined for services in a service oriented architecture (SOA) environment. The steps in determining service dependency include: recording a first triple describing a first service call where the first service calls the second service, and determining the first service is dependent upon the second service based, at least in part, upon the first triple. The recording action is performed dynamically, the recording occurring when the first service call is made. Other related steps include recording the first triple to a timestamp indicating when the first service call is made.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for determining a dependency of a first service upon a second service in a service oriented architecture environment, the method comprising the steps of:
recording a first triple describing a first service call where the first service calls the second service;
recording a second triple describing a second service call where the second service calls a third service;
determining the first service is dependent upon the second service based, at leas…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Bostick James E
• Ganci Jr John M
• Kalyanaraman Raghuraman
• Trim Craig M

Classifications

• G06F8/70 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0659 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/51

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F11/3476

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F2201/865

  Physics · mapped topic