Building a User Friendly Service Dashboard: Automatic and Non-intrusive Chaining between Widgets

End-users self service and end-users as co-developers are two main characteristics of Web 2.0 paradigm. They will harness the great potential of the Internet of services. However, today´s service exposure tools and service composition tools are too complex to be used by ordinary end-users. They are based on technologies such as REST, WSDL, and SOAP which are hardly understandable by the end-user. In this paper, we propose a widget based service exposure and service creation tool. Our framework creates links between loaded widgets automatically; additional functionalities are thus added automatically to existing widgets as long as the end-user loads other widgets to his personal environment; in the same way as he launches an application on his Windows environment. This mechanism is definitely more intuitive than SOA technologies as it is based on the user interface.