Revising WSDL Documents: Why and How, Part 2

• Published in: IEEE internet computing Vol. 17; no. 5; pp. 46 - 53
• Main Authors: Mateos, C., Crasso, M., Zunino, A., Coscia, J. L. Ordiales
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01-09-2013; IEEE Computer Society
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Computer programs; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Construction equipment; Data models; Documentation; Electronic publishing; Error analysis; Errors; Exact sciences and technology; Guidelines; Information analysis; Internet; MAP (programming language); Ports (Computers); Publishing; service architectures; services discovery process and methodology; Software; Web services; Web Services Description Language; Web services modeling; Web services publishing; WSDL; Costs; Description language; Web service; Bottom up method; Top down method; Publish subscribe middleware; Contract
• ISSN: 1089-7801; 1941-0131
• DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2013.4

In a previous article, the authors demonstrated that effectively discovering Web services helps developers avoid several common design errors in Web Service Description Language (WSDL) documents. Their proposed guidelines are unfortunately applicable only when publishers follow the top-down, or contract-first, method of building services, which isn't very popular due to its inherent costs. Here, they present an approach for preventing such errors when using a counterpart method - namely, bottom-up or code-first - and measure the approach's impact on service discovery. The rationale behind the study is that because code-first service interfaces are automatically generated by tools that - given a service implementation - deterministically map programming language constructs onto WSDL elements, the measurable properties of service implementations could influence resulting service interfaces.