Abstract—Web service is an implementation of Service
Oriented Architecture. It is interoperable, loosely coupled
through the components over the internet, and widely used by
the consumers. A web service interface is written in WSDL. To
understand about the details of a web service consumer uses it
description. This description is in structural and non-structural
form. The structural description tells the consumer what a
service look like, whereas non-structural description helps to
understand about the functionalities of the web services. The
number of web services in public web service directories are
decreasing day by day then the numbers of web services crawled
by the search engines. Moreover many public web service that
don’t have their descriptions and it is also alarming that a large
percentage do not contains more then 1K words in their
descriptions. To understand a web service there may be other
related web pages over the World Wide Web that contains the
information about the service. In this paper, the non structural
descriptions of a web service are focused. We have tried to
search the information about a web service by passing different
set of queries to the search engines. The related pages that are
collected from the www are ranked, this result is shown to the
consumer after filtering at a specific threshold value.
Index Terms—WSDL, web services, public web services, web
services descriptions.
Asif Sohail Abid and Adnan Zahid were with Faculty of Computing,
Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan (e-mail:
Asif.sohail@riu.edu.pk, adnanzahid2011@yahoo.com).
Atif Sohail Abid and Muhammad Younus Javed are with College of
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and
Technology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan (e-mail: atifsohailabid@yahoo.com,
myjaved@ceme.edu.pk).
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Cite:Asif Sohail Abid, Atif Sohail Abid, Muhammad Younus Javed, and Adnan Zahid, "Did you Find Any Public Web Service Description over the World Wide Web?," Journal of Advances in Computer Networks vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 143-147, 2013.