Web services are designed for composition and use by third parties through dynamic
discovery. As such, the issue of interoperability between services is of great importance
to ensure that the services can work together towards the overall application goals. In
particular, the interaction protocols of a service need to be implemented and used
properly so that the service composition can conduct itself in an orderly fashion. There
have been significant research efforts in providing rich descriptions for Web services,
which includes their behaviour properties. When describing the interaction
process/protocols of a service, most of them adopt a procedural or programming style
approach. We argue that this style of description for service interactions is not natural to
publishing service behaviour properties from the viewpoint of facilitating third-party
service composition and analysis. Especially when dealing with service with diverse
behaviour, the limit of these procedural approaches become apparent.
In this thesis, we introduce a lightweight, pattern/constraint-based declarative approach
that better supports the specification and use of service interaction properties in the
service description and composition process. This approach uses patterns to describe the
interaction behaviour of a service as a set of constraints. As such, it supports the
incremental description of a service's interaction behaviour from the service developer's
perspective, and the easy understanding and analysis of the interaction properties from
the service user's perspective. It has been incorporated into OWL-S for service
developers to describe service interaction constraints.
We also present a framework and the related tool support for monitoring and checking
the conformance of the service's runtime interactions against its specified interaction
properties, to test whether the service is used properly and whether the service fulfils its
behavioural obligations. The tool involves interception of service interactions/messages,
representation of interaction constraints using finite state automata and finite state
machine, and conformance checking of service interactions against interaction
constraints. As such, we provide a useful tool for validating the implementation and use
of services regarding their interaction behaviour.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/216641 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Li, Zheng, n/a |
| Publisher | Swinburne University of Technology. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | http://www.swin.edu.au/), Copyright Zheng Li |
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