Model-Oriented Web Service Implementations Compared to Traditional Web Services

Abstract

Model-Oriented Web Services (MOWS) are a specific kind of Web Services (WS) that employ models for artifacts, including data transmission. They foster reuse due to its higher abstraction levels, and allow to visualize the data as models that represent a common language. However, it is important to study possible disadvantages when compared to traditional WS systems. Therefore, in this paper, we present a study on the impact of MOWS, including technological aspects, and providing comparisons of length of data transmission in a mathematical analysis for attesting its exact difference when comparing MOWS to similarly structured traditional WS. Results include a technical discussion and proof that the length difference has a constant increase when compared to a similarly structured traditional WS. We conclude that MOWS is not recommended to all applications. Still, the differences would be dimmed by compression algorithms and might be considered irrelevant for systems that normally deal with long messages.