What are benefits of open execution environment for Web services?
In order to support distributed heterogeneous applications built by different vendors, Web Services specifications have been developed. Existing Web Services cornerstone technologies provide the basic functionality for discovering (UDDI), describing interfaces (WSDL) and exchanging messages (SOAP) in heterogeneous, autonomous and distributed systems. But in practical terms, existing Web Services support operations which are limited to independent calls over a network, hard wired collaborations or predefined supply chains. The approach to systems integration based on semantically enhanced Web Services is nowadays achievable through SWS. There are several efforts underway to develop a conceptual model, language and execution environments for SWS. The OASIS SEE TC aims to focus on providing an open execution environment for discovery, selection, mediation, invocation and interoperation of the SWS. The benefit of open execution environment for (Semantic) Web services is automation of tasks
