Service Software Platform

Focusing on Internet-based services that are accessible also from mobile terminals, this teams aims at making these services faster to develop, inter-operable and scalable. The software and software architecture perspectives are the team's approach to the research problems.

Research topics

What kind of interfaces (API) should services have in order to be best used by different types of clients, other services and mash-ups?
How to support scalability of the services for millions of users?
What kind of APIs and software development kits make the development as easy as possible?
How to optimize the cost, usability and power consumption of mobile access?
What are the different ways to split functionality between client and server? What are the run-time options?

Resources

nJoy

Project website

nJoy is an experimental platform for RESTful services. It's designed to facilitate the development of mobile services based on standard web technologies.

nJoy provides a simple web interface for storing, retrieving and sharing data on the web. It's designed with standard web technology (like HTTP, XML, Atom, JSON) and it nicely integrates with the Web 2.0 approach to web services.

Publications

Pajunen, Lasse; Ruokonen, Anna and Systä, Tarja, 'On Model-Driven Development of Mobile Business Processes'. 6th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, SERA 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, August 20-22, 2008.

Savolainen, Juha and Karhinen, Anssi, 'Matching Service Requirements to Empirical Capability Models in Service-Oriented Architectures', invited talk at Compsac. Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008.

Past publications

Collaborators

Department of Software Systems, Tampere

University of Technology Helsinki University of Technology

Contact

Kari Systä, Team Leader

Team members