Evaluating FuseJ as a Web service composition language

Abstract

With the increasing popularity of web services, a number of technologies have emerged that target the integration and composition of web services as lightweight components. However, a number of problems have been identified in these approaches, for example regarding an overly static integration and lacking support for the modularization of crosscutting concerns. In this paper, we evaluate FuseJ, an architectural description language for unifying aspects and components, as an approach for the composition of web services. We outline how FuseJ can be used to this end and present an evaluation that compares FuseJ to four other web service composition approaches according to criteria such as the organization and flexibility of the composition and the support for Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD). Although FuseJ does not allow describing complete business processes, we find that it excels at selective and dynamic composition and that it supports advanced separation of concerns without the need to introduce additional constructs.

The analysis of architectural languages for the needs of practitioners

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“…C2SADEL, 41 XC2, 42 ArchJava, 152 SOFA, 156,157 Java Zeta, 85 π-ADL, 91 X-ADL, 34 Backbone, 95 Fractal, 46,47 KADL, 39 AspectLeda, 45 FAC, 48 DiaSpec, 102 Palladio, 67 ArchFace, 176 Korrigan, 38 MontiArc, 104,105 ABC/ADL, 173 Dedal, 103 Lisa, 186 FuseJ, 178 AO-ADL, 51 Resolve 131 UniCon, 77 Gestalt, 191 Knit, 193 Koala, 16 Autosar, 179 C X-Man, 73,74 Statemate, 168,169 OCA, 170,171 ADLV 194,195 UNAS/SALE, 72 MetaH, 31 Resolve, 131 Statemate, 168,169 Ada OCA 170,171 ADLV, 194,195 Aesop, 190 Room, 192 Drems ML, 64…”

Towards a methodology for lifelong validation of service compositions

“…JOpera is supported by a visual environment for describing control-and data-flow among services, and by a run-time architecture that optimizes the execution of the process. [38] evaluates the use of FuseJ -an architectural description language that tries to unify cross-cutting concerns and components-as a language for the composition of web services. However, being an architectural description language, FuseJ is only able to describe the structural facet of a service composition.…”

Frameworks Orientados a Aspectos

“…A maioria dos artigos encontrados na literatura sobre frameworks orientados a aspectos trata de interesses transversais (crosscuting concerns) não-funcionais, os quais são discutidos brevemente abaixo. Adicionalmente, há na literatura algumas menções ao uso de aspectos para a codificação de regras de negócios [Suvée et al, 2005], [Cibrán et al, 2003], mas não foram encontradas publicações que apresentam exemplos de implementação de aspectos desse tipo na forma de frameworks.…”