Common Type Enveloping/De-enveloping Mechanism (CTEM/CTDM) for Web-based Management

A variety of technologies have been proposed and developed to efficiently manage communication networks, which is becoming increasingly complex. However, none of them could satisfy all the requirements of management. Recently, Web services (WS) has emerged as a promising XML based technology with a popularity of the Internet. In this paper, I am going to take a close look at general WS system's structure. When we build WS system using Web services description language (WSDL) standardized by W3C, I propose a new efficient design and implementation scheme keeping a whole WS structure such as universal description, discovery and integration (UDDI). My proposed scheme, common type enveloping/de-enveloping mechanism (CTEM/CTDM), makes it efficient to implement and to maintain WS systems. CTEM/CTDM scheme gives us a way not only to develop plug-in service implementations which are easily attached or detached if necessary but also to adopt legacy WS implementations easily by loose coupling between service interfaces and service implementations. The concept of CTEM/CTDM also provides us a way to quickly respond to the client's additional development requests with low cost and small effort by mean of minimizing the scope of developing not to interface but to application