Abstract—Web services are client and server applications
that communicate over hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) of
the world wide web’s (WWW).Web services are built around
the Web browser standards and can be used by any browser on
any platform. However, web browsers themselves lack the
ability to analyst and process web data offline as users need. In
order to perform data analysis, users have to output data from
web sites in CSV or XML format, and have spreadsheet
software (such as Microsoft Excel, etc.) imported the data. This
inconvenient and time-consuming task is a bottle neck in
analyzing data of web applications. The objective of this paperis
to present a methodology that employs Excel as a toolfor web
serviceintegration and offline data processing. Furthermore,
this paper presents the technical feature comparison between
webbrowsers and Excel in aspect of web application client.
Based on this methodology, we have developed an Excel-based
online accommodation search program thatintegrates web
services of Google Map and Rakuten Travel which is the biggest
accommodation booking web site of Japan.
Index Terms—Spreadsheet software, XML, web service,
Google Map, search.
The authors are with the Dapartment of Information and Media Studies of
University of Nagasaki, Japan (e-mail: somchaic@sun.ac.jp,
B2210060@sun.ac.jp).
Cite: Somchai Chatvichienchai and Wataru Miyagi, "A Methodology of Employing Spreadsheet Software as a Tool for Integrating Web Services," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 527-531, 2015.