An Example of Web Service Adaptation to Support B2B Integration

Glenn Smith, Lecturer, School of Software Engineering and Data Communications, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4000. Email: gp.smith@qut.edu.au

Paul Roe, Associate Professor, School of Software Engineering and Data Communications, Queensland University of Technology, Email: p.roe@qut.edu.au

Keywords

web service, interoperability, component software, distributed computing, internet

Abstract

Web services are touted to turn the internet into a general platform for distributed computing as required for B2B eCommerce. Web services are the glue that will link together web deployed components to form web applications. Just as there are issues with traditional component adaptation due to versioning and independent development so there are with web services. In this paper we discuss how interoperability between different SOAP web services may be achieved in a platform independent manner using XML scripts and XSL.