5. Future work

GF compiled grammars deployed as web services seem to be able to offer valuable translation and parsing functionality to developers of online applications. With the work done during the MOLTO project we have only begun to experiment with the usage of GF powered web services and the results have been positive.

To further the adoption of GF and MOLTO technologies for high-quality translation of web applications, it would be important to be able to obtain the machine processable specification of the services, for instance as WADL or SOAP, directly available as an export command in the GF Web Service API. The client applications for the web services exposed by the application grammar would then be generated automatically allowing very fast prototyping. Software that generates web clients based on SOAP or WADL is already existing.