A Versatile SOA-based E-Business Platform

Abstract

SOA is an IT architecture style, which has been proved to be able to help enterprise adapt rapid change and intensive competition. But practicing SOA is difficult, time-consuming and costly. Even worse, after a company manages to implement SOA, it still finds itpsilas difficult to apply it to the partners that havenpsilat enabled SOA yet. In this paper, we design an e-business platform featuring Web services-based SOA. Its basic subsystems establish a social and commercial zone by employing mashups; its intelligent agent detects events defined by users and reacts on behalf of users; its business process coordinator directs and coordinates business process through BPEL; its data sharing controller provides data sharing and notification between users. The highlight of this platform is: for SOA-ready enterprises, they can maximize their investment returns on SOA; for SOA-unready ones, they can still enjoy the services that the platform provides.