A Secure Architecture for Mobile Web Service (SAMWS)

Abstract

The Web environment is a distributed, dynamic, and large information repository which has now evolved to encompass various information resources accessible worldwide. Organizations across all spectra have already moved their main operations to the Web which has realized a fast growth in various Web applications. This has dramatically increased the need to build a fundamental infrastructure for efficient deployment and access of Web applications. As the Web applications have evolved, the complexity involved in designing, developing, managing and maintaining these applications have also increased remarkably. This scenario has led to the emergence of a new discipline towards the end of last decade known as Web Engineering. The essence of Web engineering consists in successfully managing the diversity and complexity of Web application development where web services have become more flexible as to independent by support mobile devices to access web services at any time, and place. In this context mobile web access is currently being hyped as the alternative for both mobile devices and web services. Moreover easily readable mobile web services, the complexity to realize security increases further. Hence it is necessary to build security mechanisms for hosting and accessing web services through mobile devices.