A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF VERSIONING METHODS OF SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE

The evolution of web services brought a key challenge to the Service Oriented paradigm. In order to fulfill the consumer satisfaction the services or products require frequent improvement by providing more functionalities and modifications. This emphasizes a need for versioning. The main research areas of this literature review focused service oriented computing, web service versioning, Versioning challenges and approaches. Based on the findings of this research, we suggest a gradual change between two strictly controlled versions with a unified repository to store relevant Web service fragments and reports. A suitable service selection should be performed by selecting appropriate service bus to interconnect the optimal version. These approaches are suitable at the time of writing, since there is already a working version of the system that follows these rules. There is no standard versioning mechanism to handle service descriptions. It is also difficult to analyze the impact of the compatibility changes. This survey reviewed all aspects of versioning which encourage the researchers to develop an effective versioning method.