Connecting Smart Things through Web Services Orchestrations

The Web of Things is an emerging scenario in which objects are connected to Internet and can answer to HTTP queries. To date, new applications in this field are mainly produced by designers and engineers while we claim that with simple and effective composition rules and easy-to-use building blocks, even users could invent new applications unforeseen by technology experts. In this paper, we describe a solution for modeling, implementing and running simple connections of smart things based on the point-click-and-compose paradigm. We envision a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) where things are Web Services using WSDL standard and logical connections between things are modeled as Web Services orchestrations using the WS-BPEL language.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICWE
• Authors: Antonio Pintus, Davide Carboni, Andrea Piras, Alessandro Giordano
• Keywords: Effective Composition Rules, ICWE 2010, Internet Technology, Web Services, Web Services Orchestrations