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A new approach to development of composite Web Services

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Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences

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With the requirement for complex Web Services steadily increasing, there is a growing interest for reusing basic, existing Web Services to composite new ones. We present a composite Web Services development approach driven by model driven architecture (MDA): using UML (Unified Modeling Language) class diagram to model structure PIM (Plateform Independent Platform) and UML activity diagram to model behavior PIM, then by model transformation converting the PIMs to specific Web Services specification plat-forms and execution platform to get the corresponding PSMs (platform specific models). The main contributions of this paper are the all-around solution to Web Services composition development and the transformation rules for structure and behavior model of Web Services between PIMs and PSMs.

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  1. College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, 410073, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Yang Yan-ping, Tan Qing-ping, Yu Jin-shan & Liu Feng

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Foundation item: Supported by the National 863 High Technology Development of China (2003AA001023).

Biography: YANG Yan-ping (1980-), female, Ph. D. candidate, research direction: workflow, Web service and MDA.

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Yan-ping, Y., Qing-ping, T., Jin-shan, Y. et al. A new approach to development of composite Web Services. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 11, 211–216 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02831733

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