Web standards

About: Web standards is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 15718 publications have been published within this topic receiving 393410 citations.

Unraveling the Web services web: an introduction to SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI

Abstract: This tutorial explores the most salient and stable specifications in each of the three major areas of the emerging Web services framework. They are the simple object access protocol, the Web Services Description Language and the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration directory, which is a registry of Web services descriptions.

Automatic personalization based on Web usage mining

Abstract: The ease and speed with which business transactions can be carried out over the Web have been a key driving force in the rapid growth of electronic commerce. Business-to-business e-commerce is the focus of much attention today, mainly due to its huge volume. While there are certainly gains to be made in this arena, most of it is the implementation of much more efficient supply management, payments, etc. On the other hand, e-commerce activity that involves the end user is undergoing a significant revolution. The ability to track users’ browsing behavior down to individual mouse clicks has brought the vendor and end customer closer than ever before. It is now possible for a vendor to personalize his product message for individual customers at a massive scale, a phenomenon that is being referred to as mass customization.

RESTful Web Services

Abstract: "Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book." -- David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework "RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it." -- Adam Trachtenberg, PHP author and EBay Web Services Evangelist You've built web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines? That's where the future lies, and that's what RESTful Web Services shows you how to do. The World Wide Web is the most popular distributed application in history, and Web services and mashups have turned it into a powerful distributed computing platform. But today's web service technologies have lost sight of the simplicity that made the Web successful. They don't work like the Web, and they're missing out on its advantages. This book puts the "Web" back into web services. It shows how you can connect to the programmable web with the technologies you already use every day. The key is REST, the architectural style that drives the Web. This book: Emphasizes the power of basic Web technologies -- the HTTP application protocol, the URI naming standard, and the XML markup languageIntroduces the Resource-Oriented Architecture (ROA), a common-sense set of rules for designing RESTful web servicesShows how a RESTful design is simpler, more versatile, and more scalable than a design based on Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)Includes real-world examples of RESTful web services, like Amazon's Simple Storage Service and the Atom Publishing ProtocolDiscusses web service clients for popular programming languagesShows how to implement RESTful services in three popular frameworks -- Ruby on Rails, Restlet (for Java), and Django (for Python)Focuses on practical issues: how to design and implement RESTful web services and clients This is the first book that applies the REST design philosophy to real web services. It sets down the best practices you need to make your design a success, and the techniques you need to turn your design into working code. You can harness the power of the Web for programmable applications: you just have to work with the Web instead of against it. This book shows you how.

Web Service Modeling Ontology

Abstract: The potential to achieve dynamic, scalable and cost-effective marketplaces and eCommerce solutions has driven recent research efforts towards so-called Semantic Web Services that are enriching Web services with machine-processable semantics. To this end, the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO) provides the conceptual underpinning and a formal language for semantically describing all relevant aspects of Web services in order to facilitate the automatization of discovering, combining and invoking electronic services over the Web. In this paper we describe the overall structure of WSMO by its four main elements: ontologies, which provide the terminology used by other WSMO elements, Web services, which provide access to services that, in turn, provide some value in some domain, goals that represent user desires, and mediators, which deal with interoperability problems between different WSMO elements. Along with introducing the main elements of WSMO, we provide a logical language for defining formal statements in WSMO together with some motivating examples from practical use cases which shall demonstrate the benefits of Semantic Web Services.