Bilateral Service Mapping Approaches between the Different Service Oriented Architectures Web Services and UPnP

Abstract

In recent years several technologies have emerged which enable building a service oriented architecture (SOA), among them Web services and universal plug and play (UPnP). The two technologies have achieved high acceptance however in different areas. New applications look for combining their advantages by mapping services bilaterally. This paper describes approaches and appliances for this service mapping between Web services and UPnP.