Easy SOA: Rapid Prototyping with Web Services for End Users

Wiki and blog which enable end users to do their works only with a Web browser, since those tools do not require end users to learn some special skills about HTML. Some of end users have also involved in “End-user programming”, by writing some tools to change a behavior of an application to make their personal works more effectively. However, these tools are too difficult to be shared with other people generally, because a flexible application tends to be difficult to learn. Thus, an application development tool for end users should be easy to learn. It should not require neither to install more special additional softwares nor to add more special configurations on their personal computers. This paper describes a rapid prototype tools for SOA based on Ad hoc Development and Integration Environment for End Users (ADIEU). ADIEU is a development tool for end users and works on a web browser by communicating with ADIEU server without installing any special development environment on a personal computer. With ADIEU, end users can prototype their application rapidly by placing some cards onto a development environment constructed on a Web browser and adding some connections between the cards. We also propose a prototype development model for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as well as Web applications and Web Services with ADIEU. The proposed development model consists of two parts: (i) End users import WSDL files from Web Services to represent methods defined in Web Services as cards on ADIEU environment. (ii) They place some cards and define the relationship between them (Produces the WWW2006-specific release, location and copyright information). For use with www2006submission.cls V1.4. Supported by ACM. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). WWW2006, May 22–26, 2006, Edinburgh, UK. . on a Web browser. Because this environment model is quite simple and easy to be understood by end user, it will also encourage end users to adopt the SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) by combining Web services with simple interfaces in the distributed environment.