WebComposition/DGS: Supporting Web2.0 Developments with Data Grids

The need to create, store, maintain, and share data as being part of Web 2.0 labelled solutions requires the application of different skills and tools sets. The growing complexity of these new kinds of applications leads to cost and time-intensive development life-cycle because many data design and management decisions are directly influenced by distribution and semantic aspects. In this paper we propose the Web composition data grid service (Web Composition/DGS) as a supporting service to address these problems. The service acts as a highly integrative core component for data-centric applications, taking traditional SOA-based business scenarios as well as REST-architectural style applications in the Web 2.0 context into account.