MADONA: a method for automated provisioning of cloud-based component-oriented business applications

Abstract

Available at http://rdcu.be/vNHHInternational audienceService-oriented computing and cloud computing offer many opportunities for developing and deploying applications. In this paper, we propose and describe a component-oriented method for automated provisioning of cloud business applications. The method covers the whole application’s lifecycle and is based on cloud orchestration tools that manage the deployment and dependencies of supplied components. We aim to reduce the necessary technical knowledge for provisioning component-oriented cloud applications. To this end, we extend Linked Unified Service Description Language to describe services for matching user’s requirements. We adopt a real case study to show the feasibility of the method

Software Greenability: A Case Study of Cloud-Based Business Applications Provisioning

“…This section presents the use case to be evaluated. It consists of the prototype of a Method for AutomateD provisioning of clOud-based component-oriented busiNess Applications (MADONA) [14]. MADONA allows automatic serviceoriented development and deployment on cloud environment, where the user introduces her requirements through a Web form, and a business application is automatically generated, deployed and made available to the user.…”

Linked USDL Extension for Describing Business Services and Users' Requirements in a Cloud Context

“…Automating the management of cloud services greatly reduce the technical knowledge required for their use. In our previous work (Benfenatki et al, 2016), we automated the generation of serviceoriented cloud applications based on non-technical user requirements expressed via a Web form. In order to select the requirements to consider while provisioning service-oriented business applications we have chosen the following criteria to compare in Table 3 the requirements description languages: C1: objective of the work and C2: requirement description abstraction-level.…”

“…The extended Linked USDL has been used with MADONA to describe respectively the marketplace's services and a user's requirements (Benfenatki et al, 2016). MADONA has been implemented and a video of the system is available at liris.cnrs.fr/hind.benfenatki/demo.mp4.…”

“…In this scenario, a patient records management functionality represents the primary functionality and procedures billing functionality represents a secondary one. From these functional requirements, several composition plans are generated following the composition plans generation algorithm described in Listing 4 in (Benfenatki et al, 2016). Figure 4 illustrates the generated composition plans.…”

“…To address the aforementioned two limitations, we build upon our MADONA project standing for Method for AutomateD provisioning (composition and deployment of services) of clOud-based service-oriented busiNess Applications (Benfenatki et al, 2016) to automate the provisioning of business service-oriented applications on cloud environment. Because composability of business services cannot be evaluated using matching of services' input/outputs, we consider service description languages that would allow to identify each service's composition constraints and possibilities (the services with which the described service can be composed).…”