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End-User Development Success Factors and their Application to Composite Web Development Environments

Authors:
David Lizcano
Fernando Alonso
Javier Soriano
Genoveva López

Keywords: End-User Development, User-Centred Service-Oriented Architectures, Service Front-Ends, Composite Applications, Future Internet, Internet of Services

Abstract:
The Future Internet is expected to be composed of a mesh of interoperable Web services accessed from all over the Web. This approach has not yet caught on since global user-service interaction is still an open issue. Successful composite applications rely on heavyweight service orchestration technologies that raise the bar far above end-user skills. The weakness lies in the abstraction of the underlying service front-end architecture rather than the infrastructure technologies themselves. In our opinion, the best approach is to offer end-to-end composition from user interface to service invocation, as well as an understandable abstraction of both building blocks and a visual composition technique. In this paper we formalize our vision with regard to the next-generation front-end Web technology that will enable integrated access to services, contents and things in the Future Internet. We present a novel reference architecture designed to empower non-technical end users to create and share their own self-service composite applications. A tool implementing this architecture has been developed as part of the European FP7 FAST Project and EzWeb Project, allowing us to validate the rationale behind our approach.

Pages: 99 to 108

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: January 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4243

ISBN: 978-1-61208-114-4

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from January 23, 2011 to January 28, 2011