Enterprise systems are frequently built by combining a number of discrete Web services together, a process termed composition. There are a number of architectural configurations or distribution patterns, which express how a composed system is to be deployed. Previously, we presented a Model Driven Architecture using UML 2.0, which took existing service interfaces as its input and generated an executable Web service composition, guided by a distribution pattern model. In this paper, we propose using Web service semantic descriptions in addition to Web service interfaces, to assist in the semi-automatic generation of the distribution pattern model. Web services described using semantic languages, such as OWL-S, can be automatically assessed for compatibility and their input and output messages can be mapped to each other.
Citation:
Ronan Barrett, Claus Pahl, "Semi-Automatic Distribution Pattern Modeling of Web Service Compositions using Semantics," edoc, pp.417-422, 10th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC'06), 2006