| SOA4All | |
| Service Oriented Architectures for All | |
| Keywords | Service-oriented architecture, Context management, Web Services, Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Linked Data, Web 2.0 |
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| Funding Agency | European Union |
| Project Type | Collaborative Project (Large-Scale Integrating Project) |
| Reference | 215219 |
| Objective | ICT-2007.1.2 Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering |
| Participants | Atos Sociedad Anónima Española (Spain) (coordinator), British Telecommunications plc (United Kingdom), The Open University (United Kingdom), SAP AG (Germany), Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (Austria), CEFRIEL (Italian) Società consortile a responsabilità limitata (Italy), EBM WebSourcing SAS (France), Hanival Internet Services GmbH (Austria), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (France), Intelligent Software Components S.A. (Spain), Ontotext (Bulgaria), TIE Nederland B.V. (Netherlands), TXT e-solutions SpA (Italy), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), The University of Manchester (United Kingdom), Seekda OG (Austria), Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) |
| Budget | Total: 13.49 million Euro Funding: 9.47 million Euro |
| Duration | 1 March 2008 - 30 April 2011 (two month extension) |
| Web Site | http://www.soa4all.eu |
SOA4All or Service Oriented Architectures for All is a Collaborative Project funded by the European Seventh Framework Programme, under the Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering research area.[1] SOA4All is a Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI) Strategic project.[2]
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The concept of SOA has been one of the most visible trends in IT field in recent years. Despite its benefits, current SOA solutions are still restricted in their application context to being in-house solutions of companies. While service orientation is widely acknowledged for its potential to revolutionize the world of computing, its success depends on resolving a number of fundamental challenges that SOA does not address today.[3]
The SOA4All project aims at realizing a world where a massive number of parties expose and consume services via advanced Web technology. The main objective of the project is to provide a comprehensive framework and infrastructure that integrates complementary and evolutionary technical advances into a coherent and domain-independent service delivery platform:[3]
The SOA4All approach to a global service delivery platform can facilitate the creation of service infrastructures and increase the interoperability between large numbers of distributed, heterogeneous and highly dynamic functionalities on the Web. By exploiting Web 2.0 and semantic technologies in tools offering increased automation and interoperability for service delivery, SOA4All can help new business ideas to be more easily realized and integrated in the upcoming billions of services open ecosystems.
The SOA4All project produced a first instance of a global service delivery platform: the SOA4All Studio.[4] The SOA4All Studio delivers a Web-based user-friendly front-end that enables the creation, provisioning, consumption and analysis of services. The SOA4All Studio consists of subcomponents targeting different service management tasks:
The SOA4All Studio relies on other specialized components - called platform services - delivering core functionalities such as discovery, raking and selection, and composition. Such components communicate by means of a distributed service bus.
SOA4All provided contributions to NEXOF-RA, the project in charge of defining the Reference Architecture of the NESSI Open Framework.[5]
SOA4All is one of the projects that provided scientific foundation to the W3C USDL Incubator Group Charter.[6]
As joint dissemination activity with the Future Internet Assembly, in March 2008 SOA4All in collaboration with other European research projects and technology platforms signed the Bled Declaration, a call for concerted European action to redesign the Internet.[7]
Together with other European projects and initiatives, SOA4All co-organized the Semantic Week 2009, an event that saw a variety of projects and initiatives join forces to promote the latest advances in semantic technologies and practices.[8]
SOA4All participated in ICT 2010, Europe's most visible forum for ICT research and innovation.[9] SOA4All's exhibition stand, "The Service Jungle: bringing services to life" demonstrated SOA4All technologies and achievements to several visitors. The stand took second place in ICT 2010 Best Exhibit Awards.[10]
In March 2011 SOA4All released on YouTube a video, "SOA4All in the Future Internet of Services", illustrating its approach and final results.