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Non-functional concerns in web services: requirements and state of the art analysis

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Benjamin Schmeling,

Mira MeziniAuthors Info & Claims

iiWAS '10: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

Pages 67 - 74

https://doi.org/10.1145/1967486.1967501

Published: 08 November 2010 Publication History

Abstract

For the success and adoption of web services it is essential that not only functional concerns (FC) are addressed but also non-functional concerns (NFC) such as security, reliable messaging, performance, and availability. The support for non-functional concerns encompasses two aspects: the specification and the enforcement and we focus thereby on two views: the black box view (only the interface) and the gray box view (the internal process of a composite service).

In this paper we identify the most important requirements for the specification and enforcement of NFCs whilst taking the two different views into account. Furthermore, we present a thorough analysis of the state-of-the-art works based on those requirements and identify areas where future work has to be conducted to fulfill all identified requirements.

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Index Terms

Non-functional concerns in web services: requirements and state of the art analysis
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
    2. Web services
2. Software and its engineering

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Sellami WKacem HKacem A(2013)A Formal Approach for the Validation of Web Service OrchestrationsInternational Journal of Web Portals10.4018/jwp.20130101045:1(41-54)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2013
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Schmeling BCharfi AThome RMezini M(2011)Composing Non-functional Concerns in Web ServicesProceedings of the 2011 IEEE Ninth European Conference on Web Services10.1109/ECOWS.2011.25(73-80)Online publication date: 14-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ECOWS.2011.25

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