A cloud service integration platform for web applications

Due to the latest trends on cloud and multi-cloud computing, the lack of interoperability raised a few issues that have been tackled with open standards and integration frameworks. However, the development of web applications adds a few more issues when accessing, managing, combining and orchestrating cloud resources in the application´s logic. This paper proposes an extensible platform architecture for portable cloud service integration. It was designed to satisfy requirements and usage patterns of web applications. Moreover, it implements access control policies and mechanisms for sharing and delegation of resources. The article also explains how the platform can be implemented over existent interoperability frameworks, concretely the mOSAIC platform. Finally, some use-cases and implications of the proposed platform are presented.