WSDL and UDDI extensions for version support in web services

  • Authors:
  • Matjaz B. Juric;Ana Sasa;Bostjan Brumen;Ivan Rozman

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Maribor, FERI, Institute of Informatics, Smetanova 17, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia;University of Ljubljana, FRI, Information Systems Laboratory, Trzaska 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;University of Maribor, FERI, Institute of Informatics, Smetanova 17, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia;University of Maribor, FERI, Institute of Informatics, Smetanova 17, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2009

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Versioning is an important aspect of web service development, which has not been adequately addressed so far. In this article, we propose extensions to WSDL and UDDI to support versioning of web service interfaces at development-time and run-time. We address service-level and operation-level versioning, service endpoint mapping, and version sequencing. We also propose annotation extensions for developing versioned web services in Java. We have tested the proposed solution for versioning in two real-world environments and identified considerable improvements in service development and maintenance efficiency, improved service reuse, and simplified governance.