Service Oriented Architecture for Data Visualization in Smart Devices

Abstract

The Internet has played an important role as a knowledge-sharing network and in this context some service oriented architecture (SOA) applications have emerged in all kind of study fields. Therefore, this work aims the design and development of a service aggregation that will favor ubiquity and pervasiveness in data visualization applications, allowing users to build domain-specific data visualizations in an easy and intuitive way. With this kind of service, it is possible to build data visualization applications for different smart devices such as smartphones, tablets, desktop, smart TV's, etc. A Web API that supports the main functionalities of an information visualization tool in different platforms has been proposed to reaches these purposes. The REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Style has been employed in the service conception as the architectural communication model. Client-side and server-side applications were developed using Java with a data visualization generator engine called PRISMA.