Extending Java for High-Level Web Service Construction
by Aske Simon Christensen, Anders Møller, and Michael I. Schwartzbach
Abstract:
We incorporate innovations from the <bigwig>
project into the Java language to provide high-level features for
Web service programming. The resulting language, JWIG, contains an
advanced session model and a flexible mechanism for dynamic
construction of XML documents, in particular XHTML. To support
program development we provide a suite of program analyses that at
compile-time verify for a given program that no run-time errors can
occur while building documents or receiving form input, and that all
documents being shown are valid according to the document type
definition for XHTML 1.0.
We compare JWIG with Servlets and JSP which are widely used Web
service development platforms. Our implementation and evaluation of
JWIG indicate that the language extensions can simplify the program
structure and that the analyses are sufficiently fast and precise to
be practically useful.
Read the full article (in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems):
See also our earlier publications from the <bigwig> project.
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