Opening web applications for third-party development: a service-oriented solution

Abstract

Web applications are nowadays prevalent software systems in our every-day's life. A lot of these applications have been developed for end-users only. Thus, they are not designed by considering future extensions that would be developed by third parties. One possible and interesting solution for opening these applications for such kind of extension development is to create and deploy Web services starting from these applications. In this paper, we present a method and a tool for semi-automatically creating Web service implementations from applications having Web interfaces. The proposed method generates operations that are published in Web services for each functionality provided by a Web application. In addition, it generates new operations starting from Web interfaces. Our approach goes further in the creation of services by generating executable orchestrations, as BPEL processes, starting from navigations in the Web interfaces of these applications and by providing BPMN choreography specifications starting from the collaborations between the generated Web services. We implemented and experimented our solution in the migration of three realworld Web applications towards Web service-oriented systems.

A novel approach for Software Architecture Product Line Engineering

“…Seriai et al in [47] used FCA to perform the component interface identification. The authors in [48] recover BPMN models starting from service oriented systems that have been generated from web applications. More recently, Shatnawi et al [49] proposed a new approach to extract reusable services from the source code of a collection of software variants.…”

A VF-IMF Cohesion Metric for Object-Oriented Classes

“…The authors defined LCOM metric as measure of cohesion which is the difference of null intersections with non-null intersections of methods in module and concluded that higher cohesion results in higher quality. The authors later revised their definition of LCOM to incorporate Loose and Tight class cohesions (Wu et al, 2015;Kerdoudi et al, 2016), where LCC is the fraction of number of direct connections and number of indirect connections with maximum number of possible connections and TCC is the fraction of number of direct connections with maximum number of possible connections. Goel and Gupta (2017) propose a dynamic approach to measure cohesion of software systems.…”

Recovering Software Architecture Product Lines

“…Seriai et al in [20] used FCA to perform the component interface identification. The authors in [21] recover BPMN models starting from service oriented systems that have been generated from web applications. Some works have been proposed to recover software architecture at run-time.…”