End User Controlled Web Interaction Flow Using Service Oriented Architecture Model The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enabling the Future Service-Oriented Internet

CAS-TIL Concept Originator & Author: Joanna Ng Head of CAS, IBM Canada Lab, Toronto An IBM Software Group Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor Team Members & Co-authors: CAS Research Staff Members Leho Nigul Elena Litani Diana Lau

CAS-TIL Today’s Problem Individual End Users has little control over Web Interaction Programmers are in charge Web user interface and interaction flows are controlled by software programs deployed on the server These server side software programs are designed and implemented by software programmers Individual end user has no or very limited control over web interface nor interaction

CAS-TIL Today’s Problem What you see is what you get

CAS-TIL Related Work Server Side Approach –User Categorization: Profile: user characteristics (e.g. roles, organization etc.) Behavior (e.g. Page-Ranking) References: A. Datta et al, M. Vazirgiannis, M. Eirinaki –Portal User customized content E.g. iGoogle Major Limitations: –Small degree of customization –Not on an individual level

CAS-TIL Related Work Client Side Approach –Customized rendered web pages with browser extension GreaseMonkey Chickenfeet –Web Clipping Major Limitations: –Customization on rendered content that bears no correspondence to units of functionality from the server side

CAS-TIL mySOA: It’s All About “ME” Individual user: chooses from units of functionalities let the corresponding units of interaction artifacts and Flows be computed Result: individualized web interaction experience

CAS-TIL An SOA Enabled Alternative Leverage the SOA model of a “Service” as units of measure for server side functionality Build an abstract visualization finite state machine as the general model for web interaction with services Individual end user controls selection of units of server side functionalities using service interfaces as units of measure Corresponding individualized web interaction artifacts & flows are computed and generated by the client side plug-in This results in a truly individualized web interaction artifacts & flow that does not contain unwanted server side functionalities

CAS-TIL The Model of a Generic Service

CAS-TIL Mapping of the Generic Service Model to Create an Abstract Visualization Model

CAS-TIL Abstract Visualization Model

CAS-TIL The Enabling System

CAS-TIL Enabling System

CAS-TIL Service based Finite State Machine

CAS-TIL It’s all about me – mySOA and ‘Me’ Object

CAS-TIL Travel Services has: Three Operations: 1.The bookHotel interface 2. The reserveFlight interface 3. rentACar An Example:

CAS-TIL Summary SOA model of a “Service” as units of measure for server side functionality Build an abstract visualization finite state machine as the general model for web interaction with services Individual end user controls selection of units of server side functionalities using service interfaces as units of measure Corresponding individualized web interaction artifacts & flows are computed and generated by the client side plug-in This results in a truly individualized web interaction artifacts & flow that does not contain unwanted server side functionalities

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