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Webservice Specification and Discovery

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Recent advances in Internet technologies have populated the web with a large number of services. Service specification is the first step in SOA for implementation of service publication, service discovery, service selection, and composition. Several specification standards were developed considering the different features of services, viz., service operations, input/output, Quality of Service (QoS), etc. Services are specified in chosen specification standard and are published over repositories/web. The published services are discovered by users on querying the repositories with the specific APIs that are made available or by browsing the web with queries. This chapter gives an overview of the existing specification standards and their features and further, it discusses various approaches of service discovery.

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    Supriya Vaddi

  2. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, 751024, India

    Hrushikesha Mohanty

  3. School of Computer & Information Sciences (On leave), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

    Hrushikesha Mohanty

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Vaddi, S., Mohanty, H. (2019). Webservice Specification and Discovery. In: Mohanty, H., Pattnaik, P. (eds) Webservices. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3224-1_2

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