Design and Implementation of a Primitive Web Service.
Takashi Koshida · Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services · 2005
The Two factors limiting expansion in the use of web services are that users find it difficult to identify the actual web service they need or want to use and that users have difficulty in understanding both the function of a web service and the corresponding input/output interface. Moreover, the composition of web services is an issue. The current challenge is to develop easily accessible and usable web services. To solve these problems, we propose the concept of primitive web services. We define these as fundamental web services with a unified name, function, and input/output interface, which can be used commonly for various activities in many business fields. Thus, both precise detection and understanding of web services will be needed. We have developed primitive web services and agents to comprise and control them, and have implemented these in a goods procurement business-to-business (B2B) system as an application example. The effectiveness of the proposed concept was verified through an experiment based on a use-case, and we compare the results with the case where a conventional web service is used.