PUBLICATION
A Workflow-Driven Approach for the Efficient Integration of Web Services in Portals
Type
Conference Paper
Year
2007
Authors

Patrick Freudenstein

Martin Nussbaumer

Frederic Majer

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.