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

Application Integration ◽

Access Protocol ◽

Enterprise Application ◽

Enterprise Applications ◽

Extensible Markup ◽

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.

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

Services and Business Computing Solutions with XML ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-330-2.ch013 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 217-237

Author(s):

Abbass Ghanbary ◽

Bhuvan Unhelkar

Keyword(s):

Web Services ◽

Enterprise Architecture ◽

Application Integration ◽

Access Protocol ◽

Enterprise Application ◽

Enterprise Applications ◽

Extensible Markup ◽

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.

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

Handbook of Research in Mobile Business, Second Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-156-8.ch047 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 499-517

Author(s):

Abbass Ghanbary ◽

Bhuvan Unhelkar

Keyword(s):

Web Services ◽

Enterprise Architecture ◽

Application Integration ◽

Access Protocol ◽

Enterprise Application ◽

Enterprise Applications ◽

Extensible Markup ◽

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 policiesprocesses- 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.

Service-Oriented Architecture

Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government, and Mobile Commerce ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-799-7.ch160 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 998-1002

Author(s):

Kwan-Ming Wan ◽

Pouwan Lei ◽

Chris Chatwin ◽

Rupert Young

Keyword(s):

Web Services ◽

Core Competencies ◽

The Internet ◽

Business Systems ◽

Loosely Coupled ◽

Enterprise Application ◽

Tightly Coupled ◽

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.

A Novel Architectural Design Model for Enterprise Systems: Evaluating Enterprise Resource Planning System and Enterprise Application Integration Against Service Oriented Architecture

2008 Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications ◽

10.1109/icpca.2008.4783558 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

M.R Majedi ◽

K.A Osman

Keyword(s):

Enterprise Resource Planning ◽

Architectural Design ◽

Resource Planning ◽

Planning System ◽

Application Integration ◽

Enterprise Resource Planning System ◽

Enterprise Application ◽

Realization of electric power enterprise application integration based on service oriented architecture

IEEE PES General Meeting ◽

10.1109/pes.2010.5589680 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

J Z Cao ◽

H J Zhou ◽

Y Z Tang ◽

C X Guo

Keyword(s):

Electric Power ◽

Application Integration ◽

Enterprise Application ◽

Power Enterprise ◽

Service Oriented ◽

Electric Power Enterprise

The Semantic Side of Service-Oriented Architectures

Electronic Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-967-5.ch039 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 644-659

Author(s):

Catarina Ferreira da Silva ◽

Paulo Rupino da Cunha ◽

Parisa Ghodous ◽

Paulo Melo

Keyword(s):

Web Services ◽

Semantic Web ◽

Semantic Web Services ◽

Semantic Matching ◽

Application Integration ◽

Service Oriented Architectures ◽

Enterprise Application ◽

Consumer Services ◽

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.