Using Web service technologies to create an information broker: an experience report

Author

Turner, Mark ; Zhu, Fujun ; Kotsiopoulos, Ioannis ; Russell, Michelle ; Budgen, David ; Bennett, Keith ; Brereton, Pearl ; Keane, John ; Layzell, Paul ; Rigby, Michael

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Keele Univ., Staffordshire, UK

fYear

2004

fDate

23-28 May 2004

Firstpage

552

Lastpage

561

Abstract

This paper reports on our experiences with using the emerging Web service technologies and tools to create a demonstration information broker system as part of our research into information management in a distributed environment. To provide a realistic context, we chose to study the use of information in the healthcare domain, and this context sets some challenging parameters and constraints for our research and for the demonstration system. In this paper, we both report on the extent to which existing Web service technologies have proved to be mature enough to meet these requirements, and also assess their current limitations.

Keywords

Internet; health care; information industry; information management; information use; software architecture; Web service technologies; Web service tools; distributed environment; healthcare domain; information broker system; information management; information use; Computer science; Distributed computing; Environmental management; Health information management; Medical services; Prototypes; Software systems; Technology management; Technology planning; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2004. ICSE 2004. Proceedings. 26th International Conference on

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2163-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2004.1317477

Filename

1317477