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Nowadays, we continue to write redundant code which can often be reused from the Web. Reusing
programming tasks is beneficial since it speeds up the process of creating applications and reduces
the errors related with the task creation from scratch. At the same time, the demands of our
applications are increasing, leading to a simple problem having to be solved through several tasks.
With the advent of the cloud, there are countless Web services that proliferate on the Web. One
solution for developers is to use these Web Services. However, the process of mastering and
coordinating all these services manually is time-consuming and error-prone.
This paper presents SOS, a Simple Orchestration of Services. The ultimate goal of this tool
is to act as a service composer while promoting the separation of concerns for two typical actors
in this realm: the developer and the business analyst. The developer must define a service as
a SOS task based on a JSON schema and submit it in a Web specialized editor. The business
analyst uses the SOS editor, in an interactive way, to chain the required tasks to solve a specific
problem. Then, the developer, uses a a simple client API – a SOS engine wrapper – to load
a SOS manifest and to iterate over all tasks, without the need to dominate any bureaucratic
aspects related with HTTP clients and messages. As a case study, several tasks are instantiated
and aggregated in order to generate a composite service for a mobile app whose goal is to give
an translated description of a picture taken with a mobile phone.
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Web services Service composition Orchestration
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OASIcs Dagstuhl Publishing