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

Zakaria Maamar; Youcef Baghdadi; Wathiq Mansoor

doi:10.1109/IRI.2010.5558901

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

Zakaria Maamar^*, Youcef Baghdadi, Wathiq Mansoor

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Computer Science

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	2010 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2010
Pages	400-402
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IRI.2010.5558901
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	11th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2010 - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: Aug 4 2010 → Aug 6 2010

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Other	11th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2010
Country	United States
City	Las Vegas, NV
Period	8/4/10 → 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., 5558901, pp. 400-402, 11th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2010, Las Vegas, NV, United States, 8/4/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/IRI.2010.5558901

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