Evaluation of a platform for the provisioning of community-contributed web services

Abstract

Despite research spanning more than a decade in the area of Web services, the industry has not yet seen a consensus regarding an effective method for the provisioning of Web services. In recent years, a new paradigm for implementing Web services based on Representational State Transfer, the successful architectural foundation of the Web, has seen greater interest in the industry. We had previously proposed a framework for the implementation of platforms for provisioning community-contributed Web services using the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) paradigm. We had also presented a proof-of-concept prototype implementation of the framework for use as a reference. In this paper, we elaborate more on the prototype by presenting its architecture and then present the results of evaluating the performance of this prototype in order to explore the feasibility of our proposed framework.