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Publication
ICWS 2006
Conference paper
Decomposition and abstraction of Web applications for Web Service extraction and composition
Abstract
There are large demands for re-engineering humanoriented Web application systems for use as machineoriented Web application systems, which are called Web Services. This paper describes a framework named H2W, which can be used for constructing Web Service wrappers from existing, multi-paged Web applicatìons. H2W's contribution is mainly for service extraction, rather than for the widely studied problem of data extraction. For the framework, we propose a page-transition-based decomposition model and a page access abstraction model with context propagation. With the proposed decomposition and abstraction, developers can flexibly compose a Web Service wrapper of their intent by describing a simple workflow program incorporating the advantages of previous work on Web data extraction. We show three successful wrapper application examples with H2W for real world Web applications. © 2006 IEEE.