Tesis de maestría
Visual Application Integration Through Web Services for e-Services Hub-Edición Única
Fecha
2006-05-01Autor
Espadas Pech, Javier Mijail
Institución
Resumen
An open platform named Hub is an infrastructure for deploy electronic services (e-services) in order to offer to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) more opportunities in new global markets. The enterprises that contract the e-services in the Hub commonly have legacy applications or commercial information systems that must be integrated to the platform to form an heterogeneous system
with the e-services implementation and external applications.
The conceptual architecture of the Hub is a service oriented approach and the use of new techniques of application integration as web services is needed for this kind of integration. Because the variability of legacy applications and the number of enterprises into the Hub, the manual integration (coding each case) is
almost impossible.
This thesis proposes the elaboration of a visual tool prototype to integrate enterprise applications to a business process based infrastructure through distributed systems and application communication techniques known as Web services; and the use of automatic software generation. The main areas involved
are the concept of e-services Hub, enterprise application integration, web services
technologies and automatic code generation.
In order to reach an automatic integration this thesis proposes the use of software product lines. The idea of software product lines is to reduce both development time and cost. An applicative area of software product lines is
generator technology, whose aim is the automatic production of software from a
formal specification.
With this applicative approach of software product lines, a visual tool can be developed by using code generation techniques (i.e. configuration wizards), and web services as application integration interfaces.