Roadmap to a Full Service Broker in Service-Oriented Architecture

Service-broker is an important mechanism in service-oriented architecture (SOA), which facilitates service registration, publication, and discovery. UDDI and ebXML are two major standards that implement service brokerage by providing service registry and service repository. As SOA applications become pervasive, the need for more powerful service broker becomes a necessity. This paper explores the features, criteria of the future service brokers that can meet the increasing needs in SOA software development.