Modeling Web Services: Toward System Integration in Uniframe; Congressional rept

摘要

Web Services offer a platform independent solution for system integration in a distributed environment. But Web Services are weak in representing the business semantics of application domains. This paper presents a model-driven approach for specifying domain-specific component models in an effort to complement the current Web Services technology in terms of enriching the semantics representation. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) can then be generated automatically from the models with generators. The modeling of domain-specific components serves as a front-end to represent the semantics of components as well as for formalizing components while the generated artifacts facilitate component service synthesis.