Research on Form-based Web Service Integration and Web Application development techniques

使用互联网的最终用户数量一直在增加。最终用户主动开发应用程序对于自动化他们自己的任务已经变得非常重要。特别是，Web服务的应用程序应该由领域专家自己支持，因为Web服务必须根据领域专家的想法经常修改。也就是说，软件质量特征中的功能性、可用性和可维护性受领域专家的影响要大于IT专业人员。本文描述了通过Web服务集成进行最终用户主动的应用程序开发。它基于“一个服务=一个表单”的简单概念提供基于表单的接口。“然后，从输入表单到输出表单的表单转换意味着服务集成。通过Web服务集成开发Web应用面临两个问题。一个是如何与传统的Web应用程序进行通信。另一个是如何合并基于XML的Web服务。本研究借由HTML-to-XML转换与XML合并的方法，发展出网页包装的方法。在这些方法中，特定于应用程序的流程在具有可视化工具的样式表中描述，并且自动生成与应用程序无关的流程。

The number of end-users using the Internet has been increasing. Enduser-initiative development of applications has become important for automation of their own tasks. In particular, applications for Web services should be supported by domain experts themselves since Web services must be modified frequently based on the domain experts' ideas. That is, functionality, usability and maintainability in software quality characteristics are influenced by the domain experts more than by IT professionals. This paper describes enduser-initiative application development by Web service integration. It provides form-based interfaces based on the simple concept that "one service = one form." Then the form transformation from input forms into output forms implies service integration. There are two problems for development of Web applications by Web service integration. One is how to communicate with conventional Web applications. The other is how to merge XML-base Web services. This study developed the Web page wrapping method by the HTML-to-XML transformation and the XML merging method. In these methods, application-specific processes are described in XSLT stylesheets with visual tools, and application-independent processes are generated automatically.