Coordinating COTS Applications via a Business Event Layer Export

@article{citeulike:277052, abstract = {Integrating and coordinating COTS software requires appropriate analysis and architectural design. Most integration architectures use message-oriented middleware for the interaction between COTS applications. However, the abstraction level of these one-to-one message exchanges is too low to aptly design the integration architecture's coordination aspects. The authors' approach, called BECO (business event-based coordination), improves organizational fit and flexibility by introducing an additional abstraction layer in the interaction stack. Business events are introduced as higher-level, many-to-many coordination units, which enforce consistent processing in multiple applications. Underneath, existing one-to-one communication technologies can be reused for event notification. Furthermore, business processes can be designed and enacted concisely as sequences of business events. The result is a consistent, flexible integration approach that can be layered entirely on top of existing technologies.}, author = {Lemahieu, W. and Snoeck, M. and Goethals, F. and De Backer, M. and Haesen, R. and Vandenbulcke, J. and Dedene, G.}, citeulike-article-id = {277052}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1463204}, journal = {Software, IEEE}, keywords = {coordinating, cots}, number = {4}, pages = {28--35}, posted-at = {2007-03-19 11:43:29}, priority = {2}, title = {Coordinating COTS Applications via a Business Event Layer}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1463204}, volume = {22}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:277052 L3 - citeulike-article-id:277052 N2 - Integrating and coordinating COTS software requires appropriate analysis and architectural design. Most integration architectures use message-oriented middleware for the interaction between COTS applications. However, the abstraction level of these one-to-one message exchanges is too low to aptly design the integration architecture's coordination aspects. The authors' approach, called BECO (business event-based coordination), improves organizational fit and flexibility by introducing an additional abstraction layer in the interaction stack. Business events are introduced as higher-level, many-to-many coordination units, which enforce consistent processing in multiple applications. Underneath, existing one-to-one communication technologies can be reused for event notification. Furthermore, business processes can be designed and enacted concisely as sequences of business events. The result is a consistent, flexible integration approach that can be layered entirely on top of existing technologies. IS - 4 JF - Software, IEEE EP - 35 TI - Coordinating COTS Applications via a Business Event Layer VL - 22 SP - 28 KW - coordinating KW - cots AU - Lemahieu, W AU - Snoeck, M AU - Goethals, F AU - De Backer, M AU - Haesen, R AU - Vandenbulcke, J AU - Dedene, G PY - 2005/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1463204 ER -