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Semantic-Based Mashup of Composite Applications
January-March 2010 (vol. 3 no. 1)
pp. 2-15
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Anne H.H. Ngu, Michael P. Carlson, Quan Z. Sheng, Hye-young Paik, "Semantic-Based Mashup of Composite Applications," IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 2-15, January-March, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TSC.2010.8,
author = {Anne H.H. Ngu and Michael P. Carlson and Quan Z. Sheng and Hye-young Paik},
title = {Semantic-Based Mashup of Composite Applications},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Services Computing},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
issn = {1939-1374},
year = {2010},
pages = {2-15},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSC.2010.8},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Anne H.H. Ngu, Texas State University, San Marcos
Quan Z. Sheng, University of Adelaide
Hye-young Paik, University of New South Wales, Sydney
The need for integration of all types of client and server applications that were not initially designed to interoperate is gaining popularity. One of the reasons for this popularity is the capability to quickly reconfigure a composite application for a task at hand, both by changing the set of components and the way they are interconnected. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has recently become a popular platform in the IT industry for building such composite applications with the integrated components being provided as Web services. A key limitation of solely Web-service-based integration is that it requires extra programming efforts when integrating non-Web service components, which is not cost-effective. Moreover, with the emergence of new standards, such as Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi), the components used in composite applications have grown to include more than just Web services. Our work enables progressive composition of non-Web-service-based components such as portlets, Web applications, native widgets, legacy systems, and Java Beans. Further, we proposed a novel application of semantic annotation together with the standard semantic Web matching algorithm for finding sets of functionally equivalent components out of a large set of available non-Web-service-based components. Once such a set is identified, the user can drag and drop the most suitable component into an Eclipse-based composition canvas. After a set of components has been selected in such a way, they can be connected by data-flow arcs, thus forming an integrated, composite application without any low-level programming and integration efforts. We implemented and conducted extensive experimental study on the above progressive composition framework on IBM's Lotus Expeditor, an extension of an SOA platform called the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) that complies with the OSGi standard.

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Index Terms:
Mashup, composite applications, Web services, semantic Web, semantic annotation.
Citation:
Anne H.H. Ngu, Michael P. Carlson, Quan Z. Sheng, Hye-young Paik, "Semantic-Based Mashup of Composite Applications," IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 2-15, Jan.-March 2010, doi:10.1109/TSC.2010.8
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