A Better Approach for Conceptual Readability of WSDL

Abstract

Issues that concerns with the inter-operability on a heterogeneous environment can easily be address using the flexible platform of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Web service is an implementation and modeling of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Web service description language (WSDL)is a standard describing a web service in XML form. This Description can be categorized in two parts i.e. Structural and non-structural. The readability of a web service helps the consumer to understand it easily, it is suggested to provide sufficient details about functionality scope and limitation of scope in WSDL, so that it can easily be understandable. Readability depends upon interaction of two variables i.e. Text and reader. The maximum details about a web service could lead to it's reproduction by business competitor, and it may helps in maximizing vulnerabilities in it. This paper focuses on a technique for computing readability index by a detail analysis of WSDL document. This readability index obtain using this approach helps the producer of a web service to adjust readability, so that it can easily be understandable by consumer. The better readability index can also leads the provider to a better service discovery. To calculate Readability Index, extraction of WSDL file components was performed. After extraction of key concepts, they were mapped with the Domain Ontology. The words that were not mapped in the ontology, synonyms are employed by consulting the Word Net. Final readability was obtained using Simplified Dale Chall readability index (DaCw). The Web Service Readability can be measure more precisely by considering words that were not found in the mapping process.