Citation
Lizcano Casas, David and Alonso Amo, Fernando and Soriano Camino, Francisco Javier and López Gómez, Genoveva
(2011).
End-User Development Success Factors and their Application to Composite Web Development Environments.
In: "Sixth International Conference on Systems, ICONS 2011", 23/01/2011 - 28/01/2011, St. Maarten, Antillas Holandesas. ISBN 978-1-61208-002-4. pp. 99-108.
Abstract
The Future Internet is expected to be composed of a mesh of interoperable Web services accessed from all over the Web. This approach has not yet caught on since global user-service interaction is still an open issue. Successful composite applications rely on heavyweight service orchestration technologies that raise the bar far above end-user skills. The weakness lies in the abstraction of the underlying service front-end architecture rather than the infrastructure technologies themselves. In our opinion, the best approach is to offer end-to-end composition from user interface to service invocation, as well as an understandable abstraction of both building blocks and a visual composition technique. In this paper we formalize our vision with regard to the next-generation front-end Web technology that will enable integrated access to services, contents and things in the Future Internet. We present a novel reference architecture designed to empower non-technical end users to create and share their own self-service composite applications. A tool implementing this architecture has been developed as part of the European FP7 FAST Project and EzWeb Project, allowing us to validate the rationale behind our approach.
