This paper describes a mechanism to automate service dependency management in a service-oriented component model. The impetus behind this mechanism is not merely to eliminate complex and error-prone code from component-based applications, but also to deal with the phenomena of application building blocks that exhibit dynamic availability, i.e., they may appear or disappear at any time and this is not under the control of the application. In this vision, automatic handling of dynamically available building blocks and their impact on application composition is critical. The service dependency management mechanism described in this paper is a starting point for such research and is implemented on top of the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGI) framework.
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