We envision users discovering suitable web objects and configuring them on-the-fly with their desired high-level application logic, with the programming and deployment carried out entirely on the web. Easy configurability and interplay of web entities implies evolution of a few common sense, yet powerful set of core primitives for effective coordination, akin in simplicity and strength to the HTTP protocol. Current web services technology lacks Infrastructure support, theoretical sound fundamental framework for web services coordination and composition, and easy use tools for web application development. Our Web Coordination Bond system gears towards finding solutions to afore- mentioned research challenges. We have proposed web coordination bonds as a potential candidate for a set of core artifacts for web service coordination/choreography [2]. Section 2 illustrates the ideas of web coordination bonds. Section 3 introduces the concept of Web Process Architecture, which is a simple but powerful enhancement to the web services infrastructure that makes web services stateful, coordination and transaction aware capable enteritis. Section 4 describes our BondFlow [5] system, which is a development and deployment platform for collaborative distributed applications over web objects including web services.
Citation:
Janaka Balasooriya, Sushil K. Prasad, "Toward Fundamental Primitives and Infrastructure Enhancements for Distributed Web Object Coordination and Workflows," icws, pp.819-820, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'05), 2005