Towards a lightweight SOA framework for enterprise cloud computing

Cloud computing has become an emerging new computing paradigm. However, the issue of providing complex enterprise product family cloud is not well addressed so far. This article presents a framework featuring an in-depth extension to WSDL and an application oriented semi-automation semantic web service composition algorithm to solve the problem. The extension captures critical factors required by real world service composition scenario. The algorithm presents a complete step set which effectively addresses real application issues in service composition. The presented framework has been applied in three real business applications. Statistical software engineering data verifies its efficiency and applicability on solving the major challenges in complex enterprise product family cloud.