From Business Services to Web Services: an MDA Approach

At present, enterprises need sophisticated software applications to sell and promote their products or services in order to maintain their leadership in the business world. One of the most promising trends is the Web services technology as the appropriate mechanism to implement e-business, which uses Internet to replicate services offered by an enterprise. However, despite the clear advantages of Web services, there are problems in determining the initial functionalities required by them. Currently, Web services functionalities are not obtained in a systematic manner from the organizational environment. Therefore, it is complicated to ensure that Web services fit the business user’s needs. In this paper we face this problem by defining a methodological approach to generate Web services from organizational descriptions. The Model-Driven Architecture has been used in this work in order to ensure the systematic translation of modeling primitives of the organizational model into their corresponding WSDL services descriptions.