Semi-automated adaptation of service interactions

In today's Web, many functionality-wise similar Web services are offered through heterogeneous interfaces (operation definitions) and business protocols (ordering constraints defined on legal operation invocation sequences). The typical approach to enable interoperation in such a heterogeneous setting is through developing adapters. There have been approaches for classifying possible mismatches between service interfaces and business protocols to facilitate adapter development. However, the hard job is that of identifying, given two service specifications, the actual mismatches between their interfaces and business protocols. In this paper we present novel techniques and a tool that provides semi-automated support for identifying and resolution of mismatches between service interfaces and protocols, and for generating adapter specification. We make the following main contributions: (i) we identify mismatches between service interfaces, which leads to finding mismatches of type of...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Boualem Benatallah, Axel Martens, Francisco Curbera, Fabio Casati
• Keywords: Actual Mismatches, Internet Technology, Possible Mismatches, Service Interfaces, WWW 2007