Application of the FUSION Approach for Tool Assisted Composition of Web Services in Cross Organisational Environments

2010 ◽  
pp. 212-227
Author(s):  
Spiros Alexakis ◽  
Markus Bauer ◽  
András Balogh ◽  
Akos Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Heterogeneous Service ◽  
Fusion Approach

The research project FUSION aims at supporting collaboration and interconnection between enterprises with technologies that allow for the semantic fusion of heterogeneous service-oriented business applications. The resulting FUSION approach is an enterprise application integration (EAI) conceptual framework proposing a system architecture that supports the composition of business processes using semantically annotated Web services as building blocks. The approach has been validated in the frame of three collaborative commercial proof-of-concept pilots. The chapter provides an overview on the FUSION approach and summarises our integration experiences with the application of the FUSION approach and tools during the implementation of transnational career and human resource management services.

Application of the FUSION Approach for Tool Assisted Composition of Web Services in Cross Organisational Environments

2010 ◽  
pp. 628-643
Author(s):  
Spiros Alexakis ◽  
Markus Bauer ◽  
András Balogh ◽  
Akos Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Heterogeneous Service ◽  
Fusion Approach

The research project FUSION aims at supporting collaboration and interconnection between enterprises with technologies that allow for the semantic fusion of heterogeneous service-oriented business applications. The resulting FUSION approach is an enterprise application integration (EAI) conceptual framework proposing a system architecture that supports the composition of business processes using semantically annotated Web services as building blocks. The approach has been validated in the frame of three collaborative commercial proof-of-concept pilots. The chapter provides an overview on the FUSION approach and summarises our integration experiences with the application of the FUSION approach and tools during the implementation of transnational career and human resource management services.

Semantic Web Services and BPEL

2007 ◽  
pp. 127-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Rabaey ◽  
Herman Tromp ◽  
Koenraad Vandenborre ◽  
Eddy Vandijck ◽  
Martin Timmerman
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Semantic Web Services ◽  
Service Oriented Architectures ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Business Process Execution ◽  
Semantic Service

An emerging technology like business process execution language (BPEL) and its implementation in BPEL for Web services (BPEL4WS) gives extra possibilities in describing business processes. It further adheres, as a technology, in a consistent way to the underlying Web service-based implementation technology and is a perfect fit for service-oriented architectures (SOA) as they are currently implemented throughout organizations as a successor to enterprise application integration (EAI). However, BPEL4WS, in its current implementation, will only serve in a static way for production workflows. In this chapter we discuss how Semantic Web services through a semantic service-oriented architecture (SSOA) can be used to extend BPEL4WS to create ad hoc and collaborative workflows.

Testing Guidelines for Developing Quality EAI Projects

2011 ◽  
pp. 279-291
Author(s):  
S.R. Balasundaram ◽  
B. Ramadoss
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Real Time Data ◽  
New Generation

The rapidly changing nature of business environments requires organizations to be more flexible to gain competitive advantages. Organizations are turning into a new generation of software called Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to fully integrate business processes. It is an activity that integrates and harmonizes an enterprise’s isolated business applications, processes and functions involving real time data. Developing quality EAI projects is quite a big challenge. Even though success of EAI projects depends on so many parameters, ‘testing’ is the most significant phase that can ensure the quality as well as the success of EAI projects. Components integrated without testing in EAI systems may affect the enterprise system as a whole. This chapter focuses on the testing aspects related to EAI applications. Especially the significance of testing for various types of “Integrations” is discussed in detail.

Service-Oriented Architecture

2011 ◽  
pp. 998-1002
Author(s):  
Kwan-Ming Wan ◽  
Pouwan Lei ◽  
Chris Chatwin ◽  
Rupert Young
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Business Systems ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Service Oriented

The established global business environment is under intense pressure from Asian countries such as Korea, China, and India. This forces businesses to concentrate on their core competencies and adopt leaner management structures. The coordination of activities both within companies and with suppliers and customers has become a crucial competitive advantage. At the same time, the Internet has transformed the way in which businesses run. As the Internet becomes a cheap and effective communication channel, businesses are quick to adopt the Web for integrating their systems together and linking them with their suppliers and customers. Current enterprise computing using J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) has yielded systems in which the coupling between various components in them are too tight to be effective for ubiquitous B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer) e-business over the Internet. This approach requires too much agreement and shared context between business systems from different organizations. There is a need to move away from tightly coupled, monolithic systems and toward systems of loosely coupled, dynamically bound components. The emerging technology, Web services, provides the tools to accomplish this integration, but this approach presents many new challenges and problems that must be overcome. In this article, we will discuss the current approaches in enterprise application integration (EAI) and the limitations. There is also a need for service-oriented applications, that is, Web services. Finally, the challenges in implementing Web services are outlined.

scholarly journals The Semantic Side of Service-Oriented Architectures

2010 ◽  
pp. 644-659
Author(s):  
Catarina Ferreira da Silva ◽  
Paulo Rupino da Cunha ◽  
Parisa Ghodous ◽  
Paulo Melo
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Semantic Web Services ◽  
Semantic Matching ◽  
Application Integration ◽  
Service Oriented Architectures ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Consumer Services ◽  
Service Oriented

In Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), service descriptions are fundamental elements. In order to automatically execute SOA tasks, such as services discovery, it is necessary to capture and process the semantics of services. We review several Semantic Web Services frameworks that intend to bring semantics to Web Services. This chapter depicts some ideas from SOA and Semantic Web services and their application to enterprise application integration. We illustrate an example of logic-based semantic matching between consumer services and provided services, which are described in ontologies.

scholarly journals The Semantic Side of Service-Oriented Architectures

2010 ◽  
pp. 90-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catarina Ferreira da Silva ◽  
Paulo Rupino da Cunha ◽  
Parisa Ghodous ◽  
Paulo Melo
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Semantic Web Services ◽  
Semantic Matching ◽  
Application Integration ◽  
Service Oriented Architectures ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Consumer Services ◽  
Service Oriented

In Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), service descriptions are fundamental elements. In order to automatically execute SOA tasks, such as services discovery, it is necessary to capture and process the semantics of services. We review several Semantic Web Services frameworks that intend to bring semantics to Web Services. This chapter depicts some ideas from SOA and Semantic Web services and their application to enterprise application integration. We illustrate an example of logic-based semantic matching between consumer services and provided services, which are described in ontologies.

Ontology-based Patterns for the Integration of Business Processes and Enterprise Application Architectures

2010 ◽  
pp. 36-60
Author(s):  
Veronica Gacitua-Decar ◽  
Claus Pahl
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Application Integration ◽  
Service Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Service Oriented

Increasingly, enterprises are using service-oriented architecture (SOA) as an approach to enterprise application integration (EAI). SOA has the potential to bridge the gap between business and technology and to improve the reuse of existing applications and the interoperability with new ones. In addition to service architecture descriptions, architecture abstractions like patterns and styles capture design knowledge and allow the reuse of successfully applied designs, thus improving the quality of software. Knowledge gained from integration projects can be captured to build a repository of semantically enriched, experience-based solutions. Business patterns identify the interaction and structure between users, business processes, and data. Specific integration and composition patterns at a more technical level address enterprise application integration and capture reliable architecture solutions. We use an ontology-based approach to capture architecture and process patterns. Ontology techniques for pattern definition, extension, and composition are developed and their applicability in business process-driven application integration is demonstrated.

Extending Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) with Mobile and Web Services Technologies

2010 ◽  
pp. 756-775
Author(s):  
Abbass Ghanbary ◽  
Bhuvan Unhelkar
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Application Integration ◽  
Access Protocol ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Enterprise Applications ◽  
Extensible Markup ◽  
Service Oriented

Web Services (WS) technologies, generally built around the ubiquitous Extensible Markup Language (XML), have provided many opportunities for integrating enterprise applications. However, XML/Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), together with Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI), form a comprehensive suite of WS technologies that have the potential to transcend beyond mere application integration within an organization, and to provide capabilities of integrating processes across multiple organizations. Currently, the WS paradigm is driven through parameters however; the paradigm shift that can result in true collaborative business requires us to consider the business paradigm in terms of policies-processes-standards. This chapter, based on experimental research carried out by the authors, demonstrates how the technologies of WS open up the doors to collaborative Enterprise Architecture Integration (EAI) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) resulting in Business Integration (BI). The chapter also provide a quantitative investigation based on organization’s adaptation to mobile and Web Services technologies.

Enterprise Service Bus for Building Integrated Enterprises

2012 ◽  
pp. 618-636
Author(s):  
M. Antonia Martínez-Carreras ◽  
Francisco J. García-Jiménez ◽  
Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta
Keyword(s):  
Business Processes ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Enterprise Service Bus ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Legacy Applications ◽  
Future Business

Lately, the building of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) where different legacy-applications may interoperate between them has gained the focus of business research. In this sense, the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and particularly the utilization of Web services standards, has attracted the attention of several researchers and practitioners for implementing the needs of EAI. More concretely, the emergence of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) has brought a layer for favouring the mediation, transformation, and thus, the communication between these diverse applications, services, or business processes in a decoupled way. Indeed, the ESB technology integrates a wide range of current technologies and business standards. The aim of this chapter is to offer the design and necessities of Future Business Environments comparing how open ESBs fulfils these requirements. Furthermore, this chapter compares six of the most well-known open ESBs considering the characteristics provided in the design of Future Business Environments.

Extending Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) with Mobile and Web Services Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 668-686
Author(s):  
Abbass Ghanbary ◽  
Bhuvan Unhelkar
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Enterprise Application Integration ◽  
Application Integration ◽  
Access Protocol ◽  
Enterprise Application ◽  
Enterprise Applications ◽  
Extensible Markup ◽  
Service Oriented

Web Services (WS) technologies, generally built around the ubiquitous Extensible Markup Language (XML), have provided many opportunities for integrating enterprise applications. However, XML/Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), together with Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI), form a comprehensive suite of WS technologies that have the potential to transcend beyond mere application integration within an organization, and to provide capabilities of integrating processes across multiple organizations. Currently, the WS paradigm is driven through parameters however; the paradigm shift that can result in true collaborative business requires us to consider the business paradigm in terms of policies-processes-standards. This chapter, based on experimental research carried out by the authors, demonstrates how the technologies of WS open up the doors to collaborative Enterprise Architecture Integration (EAI) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) resulting in Business Integration (BI). The chapter also provide a quantitative investigation based on organization’s adaptation to mobile and Web Services technologies.

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