A visual language and environment for composing web services

Na Liu; John Grundy; John Hosking

doi:10.1145/1101908.1101960

A visual language and environment for composing web services

Na Liu, John Grundy, John Hosking

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Abstract

Implementing complex web service-based systems requires tools to effectively describe and co-ordinate the composition of web service components. We have developed a new domain-specific visual language called ViTABaL-WS and built a prototype design tool to support modelling complex interactions between web service components. ViTABaL-WS uses a "Tool Abstraction" metaphor for describing relationships between service definitions, and multiple-views of data-flow, control-flow and event propagation in a modelled process. The tool supports the generation of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) definitions from a model, directly deploys a generated model to a workflow engine, and supports dynamic visualisation of a running BPEL process.

Original language	English
Pages	321-324
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1101908.1101960
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	Automated Software Engineering Conference 2005 - Long Beach, United States of America Duration: 7 Nov 2005 → 11 Nov 2005 Conference number: 20th https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1101908 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	Automated Software Engineering Conference 2005
Abbreviated title	ASE 2005
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Long Beach
Period	7/11/05 → 11/11/05
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1101908 (Proceedings)

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Tool based abstraction
Visual languages
Web services

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