Paper Info
Title
User-Facing Web Service Development: A Case for a Product-Line Approach
Abstract
Web service technology has proved its way as a function integration enabler. The next step is to achieve application integration whereby one application is made available within the context of a consumer application, and this can also include the interface. This is the aim of the WSRP initiative, sponsored by OASIS. This initiative is standardizing the notion of Portlet as a user-facing, presentation-oriented Web Service, intended to simplify the creation of distributed interactive applications. One of the challenges is how to cope with the extent and heterogeneity of the diverse aspects that are now being encapsulated by the Web Service. And how variability requirements can be addressed. To this end, this paper proposes a product-line approach. As a first step, this work focuses on the feature model, i.e. a model that provides an abstract and concise syntax for expressing commonality and variability when addressing Portlet development. As the encapsulation of the presentation layer is what distinguishes a Portlet from a traditional Web Service, the paper focuses on presentation, personalization and consumer-platform requirements. The aim is to facilitate the construction and adaptation of future WSRP Portlets to the specificities of the consumer application. This endeavour aims at leveraging Web service technology as an application-integration enabler.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/978-3-540-39406-8_6
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
variability,heterogeneity,functional integration,web service,distributed algorithm,adaptation,consumer,product development,encapsulation
Mashup,World Wide Web,Computer science,Business logic,Web modeling,Presentation layer,Web service,Portlet,New product development,Personalization
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2819
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oscar Díaz141562.28
Salvador Trujillo248929.31
Iker Azpeitia3274.73