SOA for the masses: End users as services composers

The end user service development known as the user-centric SOA emerged as a new approach that allows giving the end user the ability to create on the fly his own applications that meet a situational need. In fact, the classical SOA was designed for developers and is characterized by a heavy technical stack which is out of reach of end users. Lightweight Web 2.0 technologies such as Mashup appeared to bridge this gap and provide a new agile and quick way to compose and integrate different resources in a dynamic and on the fly manner. However, Mashups are emerging applications, and thus consist of immature, non intuitive and non formalized area. In this paper, we formalize the user-centric SOA development by introducing a new rich integration language based on the advanced Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPS). We also propose a new intuitive and self-explanatory semantic methodology and interaction model for end users services integration. © 2013 IEEE.