Binding Web Services: An Optimizing Approach

Abstract

As the pillar of the service oriented architecture in exposing business activities in a highly standardized manner, Web services have emerged as the promising solution to do business more efficiently, and to adapt to ever more changing needs and competitions. Therefore the number of Web services has substantially increased in response to the highly increased needs of businesses and companies. However, to bind to relevant Web services, users need to browse separately a huge number of business registries which consumes time and effort. To cope with this challenge and in response to limits of existing solutions, we propose a local repository-based approach that optimizes the binding of Web services of interest. Furthermore, we present experimental results situating the proposed approach to other ones dealing with the same issue.