XML Data Binding for C++ Using Metadata

A web service is a software system that supports interoperable machine to machine interaction over the network. It can be any kind of service provided on the web that can exchange data between applications. In simple terms, it is any program that is callable by another program across the web using standard protocols. Web services are special because they are independent of the platform, programming language, and model design. In current web applications, more businesses are gradually publishing their business as services over the web. This growing number of web services available within an organization and on the Web raises a new and challenging search problem: locating desired web services. Searching for web services with conventional web search engines is insufficient in this context. In this paper, a latent semantic web service discovery and composition framework, addressing both discovery and composition of web services, is introduced. The framework provides a graphical visualization interface that can facilitate users in finding the desired web service beyond the general keyword search and provide composition of complex services if the service does not exist. A novel approach based on an information retrieval technique known as latent semantic analysis is applied to a large web service descriptions data set collection. By using co-occurrence patterns across the entire data collection, and then using those patterns to infer semantic relationships between documents, relevant results in a ranked order can be retrieved. Moreover, a back to front algorithm is applied to the composition search interface in order to compose complex web services in full or partial terms from pre-existing web services when the requested service does not exist. An experimental study conducted on a collection of 2525 publicity available web service shows improved performance to the technique applied in obtaining much better search results.

In the Web Service Composition (WSC) domain, Web Services (WSs) execute in a highly dynamic environment, as a result, the Quality of Service (QoS) of a WS is constantly evolving, and this requires tracking of the global optimization overtime to satisfy the users’ requirements. In order to make a WSC adapt to such QoS changes of WSs, we propose a self-healing model for WSC. Self-healing is the automatic discovery, and healing of the failure of a composite WS by itself due to QoS changes without interruption in the WSC and any human intervention. To the best of our knowledge, almost all the existing self-healing models in this domain substitute the faulty WS with an equivalent one without paying attention to the WS selection processes to achieve global optimization. They focus only on the WS substitution strategy. In this paper, we propose a self-healing model where we use our hybrid approach to find the optimal WSC by using Parallel Genetic Algorithm based on Q-learning, which we integrate with K-means clustering (PGAQK). The components of this model are organized according to IBM’s Monitor, Analyse, Plan, Execute, and Knowledge (MAPE-K) reference model. The PGAQK approach considers as a module in the Execute component. WS substitution strategy has also been applied in this model that substitutes the faulty WS with another equivalent one from a list of candidate WSs by using the K-means clustering technique. K-means clustering is used to prune the WSs in the search space to find the best WSs for the environment changes. We implemented this model over the NET Framework using C# programming language. A series of comparable experiments showed that the proposed model outperforms improved GA to achieve global optimization. Our proposed model also can dynamically substitute the faulty WSs with other equivalent ones in a time-efficient manner

chapter 3 - Web Services

14 - Web Services and SOA for DBA, Data Architects, and Others

Online information security is a major concern for both users and companies, since data transferred via the Internet is becoming increasingly sensitive. The World Wide Web uses Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to transfer information and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to secure the connection between clients and servers. However, Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is vulnerable to attacks that threaten the privacy of information sent between clients and servers. In this paper, we propose Enc-DNS-HTTP for securing client requests, protecting server responses, and withstanding HTTPS attacks. Enc-DNS-HTTP is based on the distribution of a web server public key, which is transferred via a secure communication between client and a Domain Name System (DNS) server. This key is used to encrypt client-server communication. The scheme is implemented in the C programming language and tested on a Linux platform. In comparison with Apache HTTPS, this scheme is shown to have more effective resistance to attacks and improved performance since it does not involve a high number of time-consuming operations.

웹 서비스의 활용 범위가 커지고 실제적인 구현사례가 늘어감에 따라, 웹 서비스 품질모델을 현실적으로 적용할 수 있는 방법에 대한 중요성이 커지고 있다. 웹 서비스 품질을 일관성있게 유지하기 위해서는 웹 서비스 품질보증에 대한 방안이 연구되어야만 한다. 웹 서비스 보증이란 웹 서비스의 품질수준을 일정수준이상으로 유지하기 위한 행위들의 총체를 의미하며, 이를 위해 웹 서비스 품질보증자란 새로운 개념의 관계자가 국제기구에서 웹 서비스 표준으로 새롭게 제시되었다. 웹 서비스 품질보증자는 웹 서비스 사용자들의 품질요구사항을 수렴하여, 웹 서비스 제공자가 일정 품질수준이상의 웹 서비스를 제공할 수 있도록 감시한다. 웹 서비스 제공자와 사용자 그리고, 품질보증자는 웹 서비스 수준을 관리하기 위해 서비스 수준을 측정하여 그 결과에 따라 페널티와 인센티브를 부여하는 SLA(Service Level Agreement) 방식을 적용할 수 있다. 하지만, SLA에서는 서비스 사용자와 제공자가 같은 서비스 항목에 대해 일대일로 대응한다는 전제를 가지고 있어서, 다수사용자와 공공성, 그리고 제3자 관리와 같은 웹 서비스 프레임워크에는 적합하지 않은 점들이 존재한다. 따라서, 웹 서비스에 SLA를 적용하기 위해서는 웹 서비스의 이러한 특성들을 반영한 새로운 보증기법이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 품질 기대수준을 표현하기 위해 웹 서비스 품질 위탁보증수준이라는 새로운 개념을 제시하고자 한다. 이는 각 사용자의 각 품질항목별 품질기대수준의 최대치라 할 수 있으며, 웹 서비스 품질관계자에게 일관성있는 품질 뷰를 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 이를 이용해 각 품질관계자가 보다 쉽게 일정 수준이상의 품질수준을 유지할 수 있는 방안에 대해 제시하고자 한다. As the coverage of Web services become wider and the number of implementation cases is growing, the importance of applying the Web services quality model to real world is increased. For maintaining the level of Web services qualify, it should be required to study on assurance method of Web services qualify level. Assurance for Web services, which is newly proposed by OASIS TC, means the totality of activities for managing the quality level of them. For managing Web service quality, Web service associates could usually use SLA(Service Level Agreement) method in which a service consumer contracts for some service level with a service provider and gives for penalty or pays incentives according to the result of evaluation of services. But, there are some difficulties in applying SLA to Web services, because Web services have publicity, multiple users, and 3rd party for management. So, we need a new assurance method for Web service by considering the characteristics of Web services. This paper provides the new concept of committed assurance level for Web services. This concept can be defined as the set of maximum level of quality expected by each user, which provide the consistent view of Web service quality. This paper presents the method for duality associates to preserve some quality level of Web service by using this concept.

A web service is an interface of the software component that can be accessed by standard Internet protocols. The web service technology enables an application to application communication and interoperability. The increasing number of web service providers throughout the globe have produced numerous web services providing the same or similar functionality. This necessitates the use of tools and techniques to search the suitable services available over the Web. UDDI (universal description, discovery and integration) is the first initiative to find the suitable web services based on the requester's functional demands. However, the requester's requirements may also include non-functional aspects like quality of service (QoS). In this paper, the authors define a QoS model for QoS aware and business driven web service publishing and selection. The authors propose a QoS requirement format for the requesters, to specify their complex demands on QoS for the web service selection. The authors define a tree structure called quality constraint tree (QCT) to represent the requester's variety of requirements on QoS properties having varied preferences. The paper proposes a QoS broker based architecture for web service selection, which facilitates the requesters to specify their QoS requirements to select qualitatively optimal web service. A web service selection algorithm is presented, which ranks the functionally similar web services based on the degree of satisfaction of the requester's QoS requirements and preferences. The paper defines web service provider qualities to distinguish qualitatively competitive web services. The paper also presents the modelling and selection mechanism for the requester's alternative constraints defined on the QoS. The authors implement the QoS broker based system to prove the correctness of the proposed web service selection mechanism.

Normally web services are classified by the quality of services; however, the term quality is not absolute and defined relatively. The quality of web services is measured or derived using various parameters like reliability, scalability, flexibility, and availability. The limitation of the methods employing these parameters is that sometimes they are producing similar web services in recommendation lists. To address this research problem, the novel improved clustering-based web service recommendation method is proposed in this paper. This approach is mainly dealing with producing diversity in the results of web service recommendations. In this method, functional interest, quality of service (QoS) preference, and diversity features are combined to produce a unique recommendation list of web services to end-users. To produce the unique recommendation results, we propose a varied web service classification order that is clustering-based on web services’ functional relevance such as non-useful pertinence, recorded client intrigue importance, and potential client intrigue significance. Additionally, to further improve the performance of this approach, we designed web service graph construction, an algorithm of various widths clustering. This approach serves to enhance the exceptional quality, that is, the accuracy of web service recommendation outcomes. The performance of this method was implemented and evaluated against existing systems for precision, and f-score performance metrics, using the research datasets.

Consistent physics and engineering models are required for many use cases at Wendelstein 7-X. Web service technology is used to provide convenient access to common software components and experiment data. The usage of standard web protocols allows the integration in client software written in any programming language. This leads to a better reusability of expert codes and experiment data by a large international team. At W7-X, web services provide common functions such as Biot–Savart calculations and magnetic field line tracing. Further services provide access to databases for diagnostic data or machine models. A new web service was implemented for the creation of 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium calculations and a user-friendly access to the results. Consistent interface definitions allow an orchestration of the W7-X web services by user code, as well as a seamless integration into a data analysis framework. In this paper, we present the current state of the MHD equilibrium web services at Wendelstein 7-X.

This paper describes the use of a new distributed middleware technology ‘Web Services’ in the proposed Healthcare Information System (HIS) to address the issue of system interoperability raised from existing Healthcare Information systems. With the development of HISs, hospitals and healthcare institutes have been building their own HISs for processing massive healthcare data, such as, systems built up for hospitals under the NHS (National Health Service) to manage patients’ records. Nowadays many healthcare providers are willing to integrate their systems’ functions and data for information sharing. This has raised concerns in data transmission, data security and network limitation. Among these issues, system and language interoperability are one of most obvious issues since data and application integration is not an easy task due to differences in programming languages, system platforms, Database Management Systems (DBMS) used within different systems. As a new distributed middleware technology, Web service brings an ideal solution to the issue of system and language interoperability. Web service has been approved to be very successful in many commercial applications (e.g. Amazon.com, Dell computer, etc.), however it is different to healthcare information system. As the result, Web Service-based Integrated Healthcare Information System (WSIHIS) is proposed to address the interoperability issue of existing HISs but also to introduce this new technology into the healthcare environment.

The article describes a method for developing and modelling composite web-services. Web-service composition is used to derive new functionality from the interaction of existing web-services. Composite web-services are built in several stages: specifications (determining the type of service); development of the structure of the service based on the algebra of services; service composition modelling; selecting a service variant and generating a service. The main elements of the proposed approach are the algebra of services and web-services interaction models (basic and composite). The above approach formally presents the consideration of the main aspects in solving problems related to the construction of effective composite web-services and the selection of mathematical models, namely: description of web-services, determining the structure of web-services, taking into account the dynamics of information changes, taking into account the main uncertainties in building the structure web-services. Based on the approach, a method for constructing composite web-services has been developed. The method is based on an algebraic description of a web-service based on a specialized algebra of services. The method consists of the following steps: description of the task of developing a web-service; development of the structure of a web service based on the algebra of services; formal description of the structure and clarification of service operations; building models of functioning and interaction of service components; building simulation models of the composite service; defining the final structure of the composite service; web-service implementation. The main tool for describing composite services is the algebra of services, and the model building tool is colouredPetri nets implemented using СPN Tools. As an example of the application of the developed method, the construction of a pharmaceutical service is described, in which the modellingof the interaction of web-services based on Petri nets is used. The process of building a composite model of a web-service is considered. The process begins with building a pharmaceutical web-service model structure based on the service algebra. Based on the service algebra, operators were developed to implement composite services. The structure of the model is developed, which is presented in the form of a formal description. The process of building pharmaceutical service models in the СPN Tools environment is described in detail.

This paper presents the design principle for integrating quality management on Web service registry developed in UDDI specification and Web service quality management system (WSQMS). WSQMS, developed by NIA can measure and collect the quality information of Web services by its agency system installed on the Web service system. Web service registry is core system for registering and searching WSDL (Web service description language). On the registry, there are no methods that users search Web services on the basis of quality information because the registry is operating without any relationship of WSQMS. So, it is required an integration method where WSQMS and registries share the quality data on the basis of classified quality data. For representing Web service quality information, we adopted the WSQDL (Web service quality description language), which published by WSQM technical committee in OASIS. In more detail, this paper also presents the scheme to compose the classification scheme for quality data and to modify the necessary data structure of the registry.

This paper presents the design principle for integrating quality management on Web service registry developed in UDDI specification and Web service quality management system (WSQMS). WSQMS, developed by NIA can measure and collect the quality information of Web services by its agency system installed on the Web service system. Web service registry is core system for registering and searching WSDL (Web Service Description Language). On the registry, there are no methods that users search Web services on the basis of quality information because the registry is operating without any relationship of WSQMS. So, it is required an integration method where WSQMS and registries share the quality data on the basis of classified quality data. For representing Web service quality information, we adopted the WSQDL (Web Service Quality Description Language), which published by WSQM technical committee in OASIS. In more detail, this paper also presents the scheme to compose the classification scheme for quality data and to modify the necessary data structure of the registry.

The contribution is a logical continuation of a whole series of authors' works in the field of using abstract vector spaces for digital signal processing. In doing so, the authors specialize in the processing of specific signals related processes in geotechnology. In the first part of this paper are characterized appropriate mathematical starting points, using which was compiled web application. The application solves the mutual comparison of each input element-vector with reference elements and using inner product and mathematical view of these elements, to each element is assigned a corresponding position in three-dimensional Euclidean vector space. On the basis of this application was in our department designed and implemented web service Nto3Service. The term web service refers to the technologies that allow for making connections. A service is the endpoint of a connection. Also, a service has some type of underlying computer system that supports the connection offered [1]. A detailed description of the design of web service is a content of second part of the paper. It covers the purpose of the service, description of the various methods of service and their parameters, structure of the web service, the web service output structures, a description of the error states and a description of the WSDL (web services description language) file. Next part of the contribution specifies the implementation of the web service and how to create a service client. In the description of the presentation application of web service are listed its various functions, illustrative example and applications areas. The final part of the contribution summarizes the results obtained and how to use them to solve practical problems by different users in different development environments.

Java Web Services can play a vital role in enterprise application development. A web service can be described as a client and server application that communicates over HTTP, which provides a standard means for communication and interoperability between different applications. There are many different web service implementations available across each of the different programming platforms. A web service is made accessible via an endpoint implementation. Clients and servers transmit messages to exchange information between various web services. Entire applications can be implemented using web services that transmit messages and data to and from each other. The two main web service implementations that have been part of Java EE over the past few releases are the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) and the Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS). In the most recent release, Java EE 8, JAX-WS was not updated and it is no longer deemed as a “current” technology. Therefore, most recipes in this chapter cover JAX-RS. However, a handful of JAX-WS recipes have been added for complete coverage.