A server-in-the-middle approach for enabling mobile devices to discover and invoke web service methods on demand

  • Authors:
  • Hassan Artail;Haidar Safa;Rawia Abdel-Samad;Ibtissam Ezzedine;Omar Abou-Faraj

  • Affiliations:
  • American University of Beirut;American University of Beirut;Booz Allen Hamilton;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;OC&C

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Wireless Communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

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.