WebL—a programming language for the Web

WebL - A Programming Language for the Web

In this paper we introduce a programming language for Web document processing called WebL. WebL is a high level, object-oriented scripting language that incorporates two novel features: service combinators and a markup algebra. Service combinators are language constructs that provide reliable access to web services by mimicking a web surfer's behavior when a failure occurs while retrieving a pa...

A Programming Language for Web Service Development

There is now widespread acceptance of Web services and service-oriented architectures. But despite the agreement on key Web services standards there remain many challenges. Programming environments based on WSDL support go some way to facilitating Web service development. However Web services fundamentally rely on XML and Schema, not on contemporary programming language type systems such as tho...

A Persistent Programming Language for the Semantic Web

The impedance mismatch problem that occurs when relational data is being used by object-oriented (OO) programs, also occurs when OO programs process RDF data, on the Semantic Web. The impedance mismatch problem is caused by the differences between RDF and the data model of OO languages. In this paper, we present a solution to this problem. Essentially, we modify the OO languages so that RDF res...

Towards a Logic Language and Framework for Web Programming

An XML Programming Language for Web Service Specification and Composition

XML is the lingua franca for data exchange on the Internet. Among its many possible uses, XML is ideal for publishing documents on Web sites, for storing catalogs in electronic market places, and for exchanging data between business processes. Even though some data sources will probably continue to use relational and object-relational database systems as a primary form of storage, we expect tha...