Alternative Web Service Paradigms

Abstract

In this tutorial, we will review contemporary research that aims to 'align' the Web services with the modern Web in two significant aspects - Web services architectural styles and Web services discovery mechanism. Based on a comprehensive survey, we will identify several critical open issues that need to be addressed when incorporating Web (2.0) techniques and philosophies into the Web services practice. These key issues and their associated solutions give rise to our proposed research framework - an alternative Web services paradigms. This tutorial also introduces our recent work in this direction: (1) An evolution trend driven by engineering principles for Internet-scaled Web services architectural design. (2) A Web services discovery platform built on top of Web 2.0 techniques and attitude. In summary, this tutorial demonstrates how to move towards creating an alternative Web services paradigm that aligns itself with the modern Web.