ServiceBase: A Programming Knowledge-Base for Service Oriented Development

In recent times we have witnessed several advances in modern web-technology that has transformed the Internet into a global deployment and development platform. Such advances include Web 2.0 for large-scale collaboration; Social-computing for increased awareness; as well as Cloud-computing, which have helped virtualized resources over the Internet. As a result, this new computing environment has thus presented developers with ubiquitous access to countless web-services, along with computing resources, data-resources and tools. However, while these web-services enable tremendous automation and re-use opportunities, new productivity challenges have also emerged: The same repetitive, error-prone and time consuming integration work needs to get done each time a developer integrates a new API. To address these challenges we have developed

ServiceBase

, a "programming" knowledge-base, where common service-related low-level logic can be abstracted, organized, incrementally curated and thereby re-used by other application-developers. A framework is also proposed for decomposing and mapping raw service-messages into more common data-constructs, thus making interpreting, manipulating and chaining services further simplified despite their underlying heterogeneity. More so, empowered by this knowledge, we expose a set of APIs to simplify the way web-services can be used in application-development.