Asynchronous OGC web services mechanisms
Min Min, Liping Di, Genong Yu, Nengcheng Chen, Jianya Gong · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2008
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC) Web Services (OWS) were initially primarily simple synchronous Web services based on the HTTP transport protocol, which is perfectly valid in the case of simple geoprocessing of simple data available from local sources. However, with the development of Web-based geospatial technologies, especially the development of the Sensor Web, a number of limitations have been identified with using HTTP-GET/POST binding in OGC OWS, which cannot meet the needs of asynchronous communication and operations between clients and services or in OGC services chain. Asynchronicity in Web services could be achieved in different ways. Callback pattern is widely supported in client asynchronous invocation. Message-based middleware often can be used together with the asynchronous invocation alternatives. Web Notification Service (WNS) is designed to provide asynchronous messagebased communication in OGC. This paper describes a mechanism for an asynchronous, message-based, event-driven, dynamic geospatial Web system based on OGC Web services. The addition of asynchronicity in OGC Web services has two components. One is the augmentation of OGC Web services with asynchronous message-based notification. The other is asynchronous OGC Web service orchestration based on BPEL.