The Design and Implementation of BPEL for Spatial Analysis WPS model - With Emphasis on the Selection of Housing Units for Water Supply -

Abstract

Analysis and sharing of spatial information can be made possible through the reuse of spatial analysis processes, and the sharing of spatial models on the web. However, the deployment of spatial analysis models is possible, only when the difficult tasks of model design and the exchange of spatial data are overcome. In this study, a WPS spatial analysis model is defined, based on the OGC standards, and applied to the 'Selection of Housing Units for Water Supply' application. BPEL was used to define the sequence of processes and to enable the exchange of spatial data. To this end, WSDL was defined for WPS and WFS accesses, the sequence of spatial processes was defined in BPEL, and XSLT was defined for the exchange of XML data. The WPS model was designed and deployed using the Apache ODE which provides RESTful binding. It is expected that effective decision making will be easier using the web based spatial analysis models which are realized by WPS Orchestration with BPEL, as presented in this study. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.