Visual composition of Web services

Author

Pautasso, Cesare ; Alonso, Gustavo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol. (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2003

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

92

Lastpage

99

Abstract

Composing Web services into a coherent application can be a tedious and error prone task when using traditional textual scripting languages. As an alternative, complex interactions patterns and data exchanges between different Web services can be effectively modeled using a visual language. In this paper we discuss the requirements of such an application scenario and we present the design of the BioOpera Flow Language. This visual composition language has been fully implemented in a development environment for Web service composition with usability features emphasizing rapid development and visual scalability.

Keywords

Internet; electronic data interchange; integrated software; visual languages; BioOpera Flow Language; Web services; rapid development; usability features; visual composition language; visual language; visual scalability; Application software; Computer errors; Computer science; LAN interconnection; Monitoring; Proposals; Runtime environment; Web and internet services; Web services; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8225-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HCC.2003.1260208

Filename

1260208