PUBLICATION

A Workflow-Driven Approach for the Efficient Integration of Web Services in Portals

Type

Conference Paper

Year

2007

Authors

Event

IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007)

Published in

Proceedings of the the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007)

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-7695-2925-7

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Abstract

As Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) mature, an efficient approach for the integration of Web services in portals is required. This holds true especially in medium and large-scale SOA-based systems with a multitude of Web services to be made accessible to the users. The integration scenarios, i.e. the Web service-based features within a portal, are usually composed of complex sequences of user interaction and service communication, aggravating the need for an efficient integration solution. We present an approach for the business process-driven modeling of these scenarios in form of user interaction (UI) workflows as well as a technical framework enabling the model execution within existing portal systems. The integration of Web services in a portal can thus be realized very efficiently by modeling UI workflows and configuring highly generic activity building blocks for dialog construction, service communication and data presentation.

Reference

Freudenstein, Patrick; Nussbaumer, Martin; Majer, Frederic; Gaedke, Martin: A Workflow-Driven Approach for the Efficient Integration of Web Services in Portals. Proceedings of the the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), 2007.