Web-based application services composition for e-business

Web service is becoming an important approach for enterprises to implement their business applications on Internet. However, most of Web services are built based on special business function, they are isolated and do not address the information communication for integrating the business processes. In this paper, we propose a new composition framework, which comprises the Web-based semantic definition for business messages, the methodology of constructing visualized integrated processes based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), and the strategy of vocabulary-based business rules for e-business. In addition, we present a case study that demonstrates the way of composing different kind of application services to a uniform service