Web services synchronization health care application

TL;DR

This paper addresses the challenge of maintaining Web services in healthcare by proposing a solution for synchronizing and substituting affected information sources due to schema changes, ensuring service consistency.

Contribution

It introduces a method for integrating and synchronizing healthcare information sources within Web services, handling dynamic schema changes effectively.

Findings

Effective substitution of affected sources maintains Web service functionality.

The approach improves Web service robustness in dynamic healthcare environments.

Case study demonstrates practical applicability in healthcare scenarios.

Abstract

With the advance of Web Services technologies and the emergence of Web Services into the information space, tremendous opportunities for empowering users and organizations appear in various application domains including electronic commerce, travel, intelligence information gathering and analysis, health care, digital government, etc. In fact, Web services appear to be s solution for integrating distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous information sources. However, as Web services evolve in a dynamic environment which is the Internet many changes can occur and affect them. A Web service is affected when one or more of its associated information sources is affected by schema changes. Changes can alter the information sources contents but also their schemas which may render Web services partially or totally undefined. In this paper, we propose a solution for integrating information sources into Web services. Then we tackle the Web service synchronization problem by substituting the affected information sources. Our work is illustrated with a healthcare case study.