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In recent times we have witnessed several advances in modern web-technology that has transformed the Internet into a global deployment and development platform. Such advances include Web 2.0 for large-scale collaboration; Social-computing for increased awareness; as well as Cloud-computing, which have helped virtualized resources over the Internet. As a result, this new computing environment has thus presented developers with ubiquitous access to countless web-services, along with computing resources, data-resources and tools. However, while these web-services enable tremendous automation and re-use opportunities, new productivity challenges have also emerged: The same repetitive, error-prone and time consuming integration work needs to get done each time a developer integrates a new API. To address these challenges we have developed ServiceBase, a "programming" knowledge-base, where common service-related low-level logic can be abstracted, organized, incrementally curated and thereby re-used by other application-developers. A framework is also proposed for decomposing and mapping raw service-messages into more common data-constructs, thus making interpreting, manipulating and chaining services further simplified despite their underlying heterogeneity. More so, empowered by this knowledge, we expose a set of APIs to simplify the way web-services can be used in application-development.
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Barukh, M.C., Benatallah, B. (2013). ServiceBase: A Programming Knowledge-Base for Service Oriented Development. In: Meng, W., Feng, L., Bressan, S., Winiwarter, W., Song, W. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7826. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37450-0_9
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