Scalable Service Containers

Abstract

Cloud Computing is a new supplement, consumption, and delivery model for IT services based on Internet protocols. It typically involves provisioning of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources. In this environment, there are several issues related to the inadequacies of hosting platforms and mechanisms to ensure the smooth running of service-based applications (communication protocols, ESB, Service containers, etc.). In particular, architectures and implementations of service containers are not adapted to Cloud environments. In this paper, we present a new service container dedicated to one deployed service that avoids the processing limits of classical services containers. Our approach addresses scalability by reducing memory consumption and response time. The proposed service container is evaluated in several situations against well known services containers within a real Cloud Computing network.