Roadmap towards Lifecycle Support for Highly Distributed Web-Based Systems

To cope with the increased complexity of today’s Web-based systems, approaches facilitating operations, maintenance and evolution of heterogeneous and distributed systems landscapes are vital. In particular, due to the complex interdependencies between their distributed system parts, assuring that services are delivered at a high level of quality is challenging. To this end, we present the integrated information map (i2map) as an aspect-oriented approach. It considers these interdependencies as first-class citizens and provides sophisticated services addressing the lifecycle support of distributed systems. We exemplarily demonstrate the approach’s potential in the context of ontology-based evaluation of service level agreements in a highly interrelated system landscape.