Research Article
Context-Enhanced Web Service Invocations in Mobile Business Processes
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_18, author={Heinz-Josef Eikerling}, title={Context-Enhanced Web Service Invocations in Mobile Business Processes}, proceedings={Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications. Third International Conference, Mobilware 2010, Chicago, IL, USA, June 30 - July 2, 2010. Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBILWARE}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={mobile business processes context web services}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_18} }- Heinz-Josef Eikerling
Year: 2012
Context-Enhanced Web Service Invocations in Mobile Business Processes
MOBILWARE
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_18
Abstract
We present a mechanism which transparently enhances service invocations by contextual data (e.g., location / positioning data gained through other information that is accessible within the invocation chain): the context is applied and extracted in a way such that the called service(s) can be completely agnostic to the intricacies of context encoding, transmission, and processing. This is particularly important when accessing services from within a mobile environment, since mobile processes are sensitive to contextual data like location, user and device status by nature. We intercept the service request / response handling prior to calling the business logic and the delivering of the response to the calling application, respectively. The proposed approach turns out to be rather applicable in Field Force Automation scenarios and efficient which is proved by some experimentation.