M2M Interface: A Web Services-based Framework for Cooperated Enterprise Management

Managing a highly connected and heterogeneous computing environment requires the cooperation between various management systems (managers) across different platforms, technologies and systems. This research work is focusing on a generic manager-to-manager (M2M) Interface, which enables a seamless cooperation between managers on the basis of Web services. Next to the standard Web services protocol stack, further emerging Web Services specifications are reviewed in depth for the usability in this case study.