Flexible Generation of Pervasive Web Services Using OSGi Declarative Services and OWL Ontologies

Klaus Marius Hansen, Weishan Zhang, João Fernandes
2008 2008 15th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference  
There is a growing trend to deploy web services in pervasive computing environments. Implementing web services on networked, embedded devices leads to a set of challenges, including productivity of development, efficiency of web services, and handling of variability and dependencies of hardware and software platforms. To address these challenges, we developed a web service compiler called Limbo, in which Web Ontology Language (OWL) ontologies are used to make the Limbo compiler aware of its
more » ... ilation context such as device hardware and software details, platform dependencies, and resource/power consumption. The ontologies are used to configure Limbo for generating resource-efficient web service code. The architecture of Limbo follows the Blackboard architectural style and Limbo is implemented using the OSGi Declarative Services component model. The component model provides high flexibility for adding new compilation features. A number of evaluations show that the Limbo compiler is successful in terms of performance, completeness, and usability.
doi:10.1109/apsec.2008.73 dblp:conf/apsec/HansenZF08 fatcat:te34rasw4bc6bjufrzi4kubisq