Multiple Software Product Lines for Service Oriented Architecture

Kamoun, Akram; Kacem, Mohamed Hadj; Kacem, Ahmed Hadj

doi:10.1109/wetice.2016.21

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“…This allows to check that all the AMs that can be derived from these FMs permit to generate consistent SPs and SCs. This step is newly introduced in this paper compared with our earlier work in [8]. In this paper, we essentially study in details these two steps.…”

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Feature models as service contracts in service oriented architecture

Kamoun

Kacem

et al. 2019

IJSTM

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The service contract is one of the fundamental design principles in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Its goal is to express the features (e.g., services and capabilities) of Service Providers (SPs) so Service Consumers (SCs) can identify them to communicate correctly. The two most known service contracts in the literature are: WSDL for SOAP and WADL for REST. We identify that these service contracts suffer from several problems (e.g., they only allow expressing a limited set of features). Also, we notice from the literature a lack of service contracts dedicated for SC. In order to overcome these problems, we propose two Features Models (FMs) based on SOA design patterns that can be considered as generic and formal service contracts for SP and SC. We propose extensions to the Feature MetaModel (FMM) and semantic constraints that ensure generating fully functional, valid, customized and consistent SPs and SCs from the proposed FMs.

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confidence: 99%

“…The contributions proposed in this paper are based on results obtained in our earlier work [8]. The latter proposes an approach named Multiple SPLs (MSPL) for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that allows developers to generate customized, valid and consistent Service Providers (SPs) and Service Consumers (SCs).…”

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Feature models as service contracts in service oriented architecture

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Kacem

et al. 2019

IJSTM

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“…Mathematically, there exist 2 16 compound DPs that represent the existence or the non-existence of the 16 studied DPs. However, not all of these compound DPs are valid.…”

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“…As illustrated in the introduction (see Problems P.1, P.2, P.3, P.4, P.5, P. 6 and P.7), the SP feature modeling approaches that have been proposed in the literature [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16] notably the SOA traditional service contracts WSDL [5] and WADL [6] suffer from several problems to develop SPs. This prevents to efficiently realize IAD Requirement.…”

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“…In the literature, many SP feature modeling approaches have been proposed [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16] notably the two widely used service contracts: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) [5] and Web Application Description Language (WADL) [6]. These service contracts are represented with XML documents, with different notations, through which the features of the communication technologies SOAP and REST are modeled, respectively.…”

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Feature Model as a Design-pattern-based Service Contract for the Service Provider in the Service Oriented Architecture

Kamoun

Kacem

et al. 2018

Enterprise Information Systems

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In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), many feature modeling approaches of Service Provider (SP) have been proposed, notably: the two widely used service contracts WSDL and WADL. By studying these approaches, we found that they suffer from several problems, notably: they only work for specific communication technologies (e.g., SOAP or REST) and they do not explicitly model SOA Design Pattern (DPs) and their compounds. One major benefit of using a DP or a compound DP is to develop SPs with proven design solutions. In this paper, in order to overcome these problems, we propose an approach that integrates Software Product Line (SPL) techniques in the development of SPs. Essentially, we propose a Feature Model (FM), which is the defacto standard for variability modeling in SPL, for the feature modeling of SP. This FM, named F M SP , is designed as a DP-based service contract for SP that models different features including 16 SOA DPs and their compounds that are related to the service messaging category. Its objective to enable developers to generate fully functional, valid, DP-based and highly customized SPs for different communication technologies. Through a practical case study and a developed tool, we validate our F M SP and demonstrate that it reduces the development costs (effort and time) of SPs.

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