Broadening JAIN-SLEE with a Service Description Language and Asynchronous Web Services

Meshing up telecommunication and IT resources seems to be the real challenge for supporting the evolution towards the next generation of Web Services. In the telecom world, JAIN-SLEE (JAIN Service Logic Execution Environment) is an emerging standard specification for Java service platforms targeted to host value added services, composed of telecom and IT services. This chapter describes the StarSLEE platform which extends JAIN-SLEE in order to compose JAIN-SLEE services with Web Services and the StarSCE service creation environment which allows exporting value added services as communication Web Services. It analyzes open issues that must be addressed to introduce Web Services in new telecom service platforms.