User-Centric Composition of Service Front-Ends at the Presentation Layer

The emerge of web services in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) within companies or at the global internet offers new ways for the creation of web applications. Even though the composition of services via business processes are covered by existing tools and solutions, concepts for a lightweight service consumption are still in a preliminary phase. The complexity of state-of-the-art SOA technology prevents users with limited IT skills getting easy access to web services and their offered functionalities. This paper presents a user-centric design approach to model and create simple service-based applications in a graphical way without being necessary to write any code.

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