Transforming Service-Oriented Business Models into Web Service Specifications.

Abstract

At present, enterprises need sophisticated software applications to sell and promote their products or services in order to maintain their leadership in the business world. One of the most promising trends is the use of Web services technology as the appropriate mechanism to implement e-business, which uses Internet to replicate services offered by an enterprise. However, despite the clear advantages of Web services, there are problems in determining the initial functionalities required by them. Currently, the functionalities of Web services are not obtained in a systematic manner from the organizational environment that Web services try to replicate. Therefore, it is complicated to ensure that Web services fit the business user’s needs. In this paper we face this problem by defining a methodological approach to generate Web services from serviceoriented organizational descriptions. The ModelDriven Architecture has been used in this work in order to ensure the systematic translation of modeling primitives of the organizational model into their corresponding WSDL services descriptions.