Article in Proceedings INPROC-2005-122

BibliographyKarastoyanova, Dimka; Leymann, Frank; Buchmann, Alejandro P.: An Approach to Parameterizing Web Service Flows.
In: Benatallah, Boualem (ed.); Casati, Fabio (ed.); Traverso, Paolo (ed.): Proc. 3rd Intl. Conf. on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC’2005).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 3826, pp. 533-538, english.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Springer, November 2005.
ISBN: 3-540-30817-2; DOI: 10.1007/11596141_45.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaK.1 (The Computer Industry)
Abstract

The flexibility and reusability of Web Service flows (WS-flows) are limited especially by the fact that portType and operation names are hard-coded in the process definition. In this paper we argue that through parameterization and substitution WS-flows flexibility can be improved, while reusability is enhanced. We introduce a meta-model extension to enable run time evaluation of parameter values and thus discard the need to predict any possible partner service types during process modeling. The extension enables also run time changes in portType values. We show how the approach can be mapped to BPEL. We discuss prototypical implementation for the extended functionality and present conclusions and ideas for future work.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, Architecture of Application Systems
Entry dateApril 30, 2008
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