Seamless Integration of Web Services.ppt

Seamless Integration of Web Services Agenda Current state of the Web Figure out how to improve on it Example scenario describing how things could be made better Possible way of achieving this Conclusion Current State of Web The Web has come a long way Static Content ? Dynamic Content ? Programmable Web Web is mature in terms of services All functionality that you would want is already there What’s Lacking? It takes a knowledge worker to harness the full power of the programmable web. No integration of Web Services into day-to-day applications Applications not intelligent enough to locate and make use of Web Services on behalf of the user Next Generation Killer Applications Should be able to utilize the zillions of services out there. Should proactively help the user in getting his work done. Enter Joe, the Financial Wizard How would he do that today? Search the web for online stock trading services. Pick one and navigate to that site. Use the links there to make his transactions. BUT… If you want More information from some other provider Make the trade through another brokerage Then You have to do the whole stuff all over again! You cannot use the data that you got from site 1 to invoke service at second site. Possibility: “Next Gen Excel” with Web Services Integrated Achieving Seamless Integration The Service Publisher should provide following information to the application mapping between returned XML data and further actions Mapping between common actions like “Edit” and web methods We need industry standards Conclusion The killer applications of tomorrow will be the ones that can seamlessly integrate web services The boundary between productivity applications like ‘MS Office’ and connectivity applications like ‘Browser’ will fade We should have standards that help consumption of these services in a seamless way Conclusion Standards of today focus more on Locating, binding and invoking web services Future applications should focus on Exposing these services t