TL;DR: A prototype of the system that is applied to mobile environment for optimizing Web Service communications and describes the approach and experiences when designing semantics for XML Metadata Services is described.
Abstract: As the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles have gained importance, an emerging need has appeared for methodologies to locate desired services that provide access to their capability descriptions. These services must typically be assembled into short-term service collections that, together with code execution services, are combined into a meta-application to perform a particular task. To address metadata requirements of these problems, we introduce XML Metadata Services to manage both stateless and stateful (transient) metadata. We leverage the two widely used web service standards: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) and Web Services Context (WS-Context) in our design. We describe our approach and experiences when designing semantics"" for XML Metadata Services. We report results from a prototype of the system that is applied to mobile environment for optimizing Web Service communications.""
TL;DR: The research work in optimizing SOAP message contents is described, which shows that it saves on average 83% of message size and on average 41% of transit time.
Abstract: The performance and efficiency of Web Service messaging can be greatly increased by removing the redundant parts of SOAP messages. This paper describes our research work in optimizing SOAP message contents. This area is particularly important to those applications that are physically constrained mobile computing environments. The redundant or static parts of the SOAP message may be treated as metadata and stored in shared metadata space. We integrate our optimized SOAP messaging system with our information management research framework. We evaluate our approach by testing the performance of the resulting system. The empirical result shows that we save on average 83% of message size and on average 41% of transit time.