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Explore how Haley offers automation, scalability, and ease-of-use in composing Web services into BPEL processes, enhancing agility and efficiency.
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Haley: An End-to-End, Scalable Web Service Composition Tool 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW08)Developers Track, April 23, 2008 Haibo Zhao, Prashant Doshi LSDIS Lab., The University of Georgia
Outline • Introduction and Motivation (Why Haley?) • Haley Features in Brief (What does Haley do?) • Haley Architecture and Modules (How it works?) • Scenario and Demo (How it can be used?) • Discussions and Future work (How good/bad it is?)
Introduction: Web service composition Value-added Web service composition into BPEL processes Individual Web services
Motivation • Existing approaches • Manual approach (BPEL coding by hand) • Very tedious and error-prone • Quickly becomes unmanageable • Automated approaches (Astro, Synthy) • Scalability • Major limitation of existing automated approaches due to the inherent complexity of planning algorithms • Quality of the composition • Optimize QoS parameters • Minimize invocation cost, response time, … • Maximize reliability, ...
What does Haley do? Haley aims to provide an end-to-end, scalable and automated tool suite to compose Web services into BPEL processes* • Automation • Haley takes functional descriptions (WSDL/SAWSDL) and non-functional descriptions (WS-agreement) of component Web services to automatically compose BPEL processes • Scalability • Haley utilizes a hierarchy modeler to model the hierarchy usually found in business processes • Easy-to-use • Intuitive UI (EMF, GMF) that hides the complexity of AI planning • Avoid tedious and error-prone BPEL coding *Haley: A Hierarchical Framework for Logical Composition of Web Services, Haibo Zhao, Prashant Doshi, IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Research Track, ICWS07, Salt Lake City, Utah
Features of Haley • Use Web services described in WSDL and SAWSDL • Browse functionality of Web service with SAWSDL Viewer • Model process hierarchy • Specify initial state and business goals of processes • AI-planning based flow generation using Prolog • Programmatically generate BPEL code using ActiveBpel API • Graphically view BPEL code in Eclipse
Demonstration Scenario ISBN lookup Amazon Associates Web Service Translation service webserviceX.net Amazon Associates Web Service Currency service webserviceX.net Address Standardization Service ZIP lookup service Rate Calculation Service Currency service webserviceX.net
Demo • Importing candidate Web services • specifying hierarchy • specifying desired properties of the composition • generating planning problem file • generating plan • generating BPEL file
Discussion and Future Work • Significance of Haley • An easy-to-use, end-to-end and practical tool • An automated WS composition tool hiding the complexity of AI planning and BPEL from designers • Scalable • Limitations • Current version focuses on control flow • No execution engine embedded • Future work • Consider data mediation • Integrate service discovery • Continue to improve the usability and reliability
Thank you! Questions? Haibo Zhao zhao@cs.uga.edu http://denali.cs.uga.com/projects