id: 05496276
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an: 05496276
au: Spillner, Josef; Feldmann, Marius; Braun, Iris; Springer, Thomas; Schill,
    Alexander
ti: Ad-hoc usage of web services with Dynvoker.
so: Mähönen, Petri (ed.) et al., Towards a service-based internet. First
    European conference, ServiceWave 2008, Madrid, Spain, December 10‒13,
    2008. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-540-89896-2/pbk).
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5377, 208-219 (2008).
py: 2008
pu: Berlin: Springer
la: EN
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li: doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89897-9_18
ab: Summary: While web services are often targeted at machine-to-machine
    communication, they are also increasingly used directly in the
    interactions between humans and machines. Instead of developing
    specialised client applications for the invocation of these services, a
    generic human-driven ad-hoc usage is beneficial in many scenarios,
    including rapid service testing and dynamic inclusion of services as
    plugins into applications. We argue for the need for such a usage and
    extract requirements for generic web service clients. We then present a
    few selected use cases and introduce the Dynvoker client which already
    passes the majority of evaluation criteria. With its technical
    capabilities and open and vivid development, we consider it the most
    suitable and flexible generic client available and therefore highlight
    its role as a central component in a user-centric web service research
    project.
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