System and Method for Component Trust Model in Peer-to-Peer Service Composition

摘要

A system is provided for composition trust binding in a peer-to-peer network environment. The system includes: a service requestor (21) residing on a peer (22) in the network and able to invoke a service (23) residing on another peer (24) in the network. The service requestor is also able to communicate a composition trust binding to the peer hosting the service, where the composition trust binding i a set of rules that define a collection of allowable software components which may be invoked by the service. A validation agent (25) ensures that the service executes in accordance with the binding.