Description:
Web services are currently one of the most important technologies for enabling an effective communication between and within distributed systems. The Web services technology relies on widely used and well-adopted technologies and open standards. A current trend in software engineering is model-based software development. One of the main goals of model-based software development is the efficient production of high quality software. This thesis presents a comprehensive approach for the model-based development of Web services. The approach is based on a Web service profile for the Unified Modeling Language (UML), which allows an efficient definition of complete Web service models