A Framework for Service-Oriented Computing with C and C++ Web Service Components ================================================================================ <p align="right"><i>by Robert A. van Engelen, published in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol.8, No.3, 2008</i></p> Service-oriented architectures use loosely coupled software services to support the requirements of business processes and software users. Several software engineering challenges have to be overcome to expose legacy C and C++ applications and specialized system resources as XML-based software services. It is critical to devise effective bindings between XML and C/C++ data to efficiently interoperate with other XML-based services. Binding application data to XML has many software solutions, ranging from generic document object models to idiosyncratic type mappings. However, a safe binding must conform to XML validation constraints, guarantee type safety, and should preserve the structural integrity of communicated application data. By contrast, tight XML bindings impose mapping constraints that can hamper interoperability between services. This paper presents a framework for constructing loosely coupled C/C++ services based on a programming model that integrates XML bindings into the C and C++ syntax. The concepts behind the bindings are generic, which makes the approach applicable to other programming languages. ![Download](images/pdf.png) [Article](articles/toit2008.pdf) <p align="right"><i>Copyright (c) 2018, Robert van Engelen, Genivia Inc. All rights reserved.</i></p>