Providing SOAP Web Services and RESTful Web Services from Mobile Hosts

Author

AlShahwan, Feda ; Moessner, Klaus

Author_Institution

Centre for Commun. Syst. Res., Univ. of Surrey, Guildford, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

9-15 May 2010

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

179

Abstract

Providing non interrupted Web Services from resource limited mobile devices in a light weight processing manner is a significant need. This paper takes a step towards achieving this goal. An implementation of two frameworks for providing Web Services from resource constraints devices is presented. The first framework is implemented to provide SOAP Web Services and the second one is implemented to provide RESTful Web Services. Each of those two frameworks has its own features and shortcomings. This paper provides a comparison between SOAP-based frameworks and RESTful-based frameworks. This comparison is carried out to allow us to decide on the framework that best suits mobile environment capabilities and fulfils our requirement of providing mobile Web Services continuously with a light weight processing requirement. This comparison is undertaken and analyzed using three different test scenarios. Our preliminary work shows that a RESTful-based MWSF is more suitable for mobile environments.

Keywords

Web services; access protocols; mobile computing; MWSF; RESTful Web services; SOAP Web services; mobile device; representational state transfer; simple object access protocol; Access protocols; Context awareness; Data security; Information security; Simple object access protocol; Testing; Uniform resource locators; Web and internet services; Web services; XML; RESTful-based MWSF; SOAP-based MWSF;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW), 2010 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6728-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIW.2010.33

Filename

5476765