A SERVER-IN-THE-MIDDLE APPROACH FOR ENABLING MOBILE DEVICES TO DISCOVER AND INVOKE WEB SERVICE METHODS ON DEMAND

作者：Artail Hassan^*; Safa Haidar; Abdel Samad Rawia; Ezzedine Ibtissam; Abou Faraj Omar

来源：IEEE Wireless Communications, 2010, 17(5): 81-88.

DOI：10.1109/MWC.2010.5601962

• Servers
• Mobile handsets
• Simple object access protocol
• Runtime
• Graphical user interfaces

Mobile devices are becoming more pervasive, and it is becoming increasingly necessary to integrate Web services into applications that run on these devices. We introduce a novel approach for dynamically invoking Web service methods from mobile devices with minimal user intervention that only involves entering a search phrase and values for the method parameters. The architecture overcomes challenges that involve consuming discovered services dynamically by introducing a server in the middle that provides a Web service whose responsibility is to discover needed services and build the client-side proxies at runtime. Moreover, experiments have shown that the architecture is scalable and saves device battery power.

• 出版日期2010-10