CYRUS: A FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK TO INTEGRATE DISTRIBUTED SERVICES.

Distributed systems are paradigms to provide vastly more effective solutions to important scientific, engineering, business and government problems. Today, there are many computing paradigms to support development of distributed systems. Currently, Service oriented computing (SOC) is the prominent academic and industrial paradigm among them. The SOC paradigm uses services to support the development of rapid, low-cost, interoperable, evolvable, and massively distributed applications. This paper introduces a small and flexible framework, called Cyrus, to develop distributed systems based on services span on a distributed environment. We don not claim that the Cyrus can be an alternative to current SOA framework such as BEA logic and BizTalk. However, it is a small framework enables developers to build distributed applications easily without knowing more about technologies relevant to service oriented development. The Cyrus is a platform that governs communications between applications, dispatches messages, and manages long time running of applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]