Towards an approach for Enterprise Application Integration based on specialized services and Business Objects

Zakaria Maamar, Youcef Baghdadi, Wathiq Mansoor

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Abstract

The recent development wave in the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) domain promotes Service- Oriented Architecture (SOA) and one of its implementation technologies that is Web Services (WSs). Recently, Data Services (DSs) have risen as a new form of services that are specifically optimized for real-time data integration demands. Despite the role that WSs and DSs could both play in addressing enterprise application issues, there is still a lack of architectures and approaches to methodologically design solutions to these issues. In this paper we propose an architecture along with an approach that both make WSs and DSs work hand-in-hand during the exercise of integrating enterprise applications, whereby WSs and DSs are supported by reusable software components, which we refer to as Business Objects (BOs). In this architecture, BOs abstract the complexity and disparity of data resources and thus,constitute their unique access points; WSs interface changes in BOs; and DSs interface only retrieval of the status of BOs. WSs/DSs-BOs combination is looked atfrom four interfaced levels, namely: (L1) enterprise application, (L2) service (specialized into Web service and Data service), (L3) business object, and (L4) data sources. The four levels are connected as follows: (I1:L1/L2) composition, (I2: L2/L3) matching, and (I3: L3/L4) access.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2010 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2010
Pages400-402
Number of pages3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event11th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2010 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: Aug 4 2010 → Aug 6 2010

Other

Other11th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2010
CountryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period8/4/10 → 8/6/10

Keywords

  • Application integration
  • Business object
  • Data service
  • Data source
  • Web service

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management

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    Maamar, Z., Baghdadi, Y., & Mansoor, W. (2010). Towards an approach for Enterprise Application Integration based on specialized services and Business Objects. In 2010 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2010 (pp. 400-402). [5558901] https://doi.org/10.1109/IRI.2010.5558901