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This paper proposes the concept of business events as the cornerstone to web service description and coordination. First, a web service architecture is introduced as the result of an event based analysis & design phase. Then, it is advocated how the event concept can be used for semantically rich web service description. A distinction is made between two web service interfaces: a non-transactional query interface and a transactional event notification interface. Furthermore, a web service composition model is proposed, based on event broadcasting and event preconditions, instead of traditional one-to-one method invocations. The composition model is presented in a static variant and in a version with dynamic subscription. Throughout the paper, it is shown how the event based approach fits entirely within the current standard SOAP/WSDL/UDDI web services stack.
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Lemahieu, W., Snoeck, M., Michiels, C., Goethals, F., Dedene, G., Vandenbulcke, J. (2004). Event Based Web Service Description and Coordination. In: Bussler, C.J., Fensel, D., Orlowska, M.E., Yang, J. (eds) Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web. WES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3095. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25982-4_11
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