A novel approach for developing interoperable services in cloud environment

Cloud computing has seen a tremendous growth in the last five years. Along with the growth, many cloud models have been marketed. They deliver hardware and software as virtualization enabled services to users. Although cloud computing offers considerable advantages such as unlimited resources, manageability and lower investment costs but there are still barriers to exploit it. One of the barriers is the difficulties, which users are being faced when developing and deploying their own services into clouds. In this paper, we present a novel approach for developing interoperable services that can be deployed in different cloud infrastructures at the same time. The approach provides an instrument with emphasis on abstraction, inheritance and code reuse. Using the approach, cloud-based services are developed easily by extending existing abstractions classes provided by the instrument or other developers. The interoperability between different clouds is solved via the basic abstraction class of the instrument and all services are inherited and benefited from this advantage.