A Case Study: Experiences with Building an Online Exhibition System using Web Services

We present an implementation of an Online Exhibition System (OES) web service(s) that reflects our experiences with using web service development packages and software process models. The system provides major functionality that exists in similar packages. While developing such a complex web service, we gained insightful experience (i) in the traditional software development processes: waterfall model and evolutionary development and their fitness to web services development, (ii) in the fitness and effectiveness of a major web services development kit.

• Atakan Kurt
• Arzu Naiboğlu

• Web Services
• Online Exhibition System
• Software Engineering
• Waterfall Model
• e-business.

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