Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) Enabled Customer-Centric Collaborative Commerce Platform (WCCP)

Abstract

 Abstract—Traditional Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has consistently promised more than it has delivered, but Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) promises to deliver the robust outcomes formerly expected of SOA. WOA extends SOA to web-based applications. The architecture hides the protocol complexity in the application state and provides simpler methods for the deployment of interoperable web services. However, this pragmatic and effective approach has only been rarely implemented, limiting the body of formal knowledge and support available to enterprises which want to exploit this profoundly useful and simple way of developing interoperable systems. In this paper, we describe the development of a novel customer-centric collaborative commerce platform (WCCP) on WOA in a virtual environment. The classification from the United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (USNPSC) was adopted to achieve the interoperability between differential enterprises.