Programming distributed Web services using WebGOP: a graph-oriented approach

WebGOP is a programming architecture for collaborative web services using graph oriented programming. The motivation of the project comes form the realization of the lack of support for the integration of collaborative Web services. The aim of WebGOP is to extend the Web from a client-server system to a structured multi-point system. A graph abstraction of network provides the structure for the integration of Web services and facilitates their configuration and programming. Using WebGOP, a logical graph representing a virtual overlay network over the Internet is created to link up collaborative Web services. The Web services on different servers work collaboratively for a multi-point network application.