A Tool Chain for Constructing QoS-aware Web Services

Web services play a dominant role in service computing and for realizing service-oriented architectures (SOA), which define the architectural foundation for various kinds of distributed applications. In many business domains, Web services must exhibit quality attributes such as robustness, security, dependability, performance, scalability and accounting. As a consequence, there is a high demand to develop, deploy and consume Web services equipped with well-defined quality of service (QoS) attributes – so-called QoS-aware Web services. Currently, there is only limited development support for the creation of QoS-aware Web services, though. In this work we present a tool chain that facilitates development, deployment and testing of QoS-aware Web services. The tool chain has following features: i) integration of standard components such as widely used IDEs, ii) usage of standards and specifications, and iii) support for various application servers and Web services infrastructures.