WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION USING THE WEB SERVICES MANAGEMENT LAYER

Niels Joncheere, Bart Verheecke, Viviane Jonckers, Sofie Van Hoecke, Gregory Van Seghbroeck, Bart Dhoedt

2008

Abstract

The Web Services Management Layer (WSML) is an academic middleware platform that is placed in between clients and web services. It takes care of dynamic integration, selection, composition and client-side management of web services, thus removing the need to take care of these concerns in clients. This paper describes how the WSML can be used to express web service compositions, and presents the results of a number of experiments which evaluate the performance and scalability of the current WSML implementation. These results show that the WSML induces only a small overhead compared to systems in which the WSML has not been deployed. The advanced features of the WSML therefore come a low cost in terms of performance and scalability, which makes it a viable option in real-life web services applications.

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Joncheere N., Verheecke B., Jonckers V., Van Hoecke S., Van Seghbroeck G. and Dhoedt B. (2008). WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION USING THE WEB SERVICES MANAGEMENT LAYER . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-26-5, pages 109-116. DOI: 10.5220/0001518201090116


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@conference{webist08,
author={Niels Joncheere and Bart Verheecke and Viviane Jonckers and Sofie Van Hoecke and Gregory Van Seghbroeck and Bart Dhoedt},
title={WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION USING THE WEB SERVICES MANAGEMENT LAYER},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={109-116},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001518201090116},
isbn={978-989-8111-26-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION USING THE WEB SERVICES MANAGEMENT LAYER
SN - 978-989-8111-26-5
AU - Joncheere N.
AU - Verheecke B.
AU - Jonckers V.
AU - Van Hoecke S.
AU - Van Seghbroeck G.
AU - Dhoedt B.
PY - 2008
SP - 109
EP - 116
DO - 10.5220/0001518201090116