Model-Driven Development of a Mediation Service

Although service-oriented architectures offer real benefits when pursuing application integration and business flexibility, there are still no satisfactory solutions for dealing with existing systems that need to cooperate while their services have no perfect match. In the case of incompatible services, a 'mediator' may be introduced which resolves (semantic) interoperability problems by intervening in the cooperation between systems. Building mediators is currently often a manual process, resulting in dedicated IT-driven solutions, with no concern for reuse of process, models or code. This paper presents a framework to guide the development of mediators, with the following objectives: (i) uncover and capture the actual interoperability problem that needs to be solved; (ii) allow the involvement of non-IT (i.e., business) experts in the development of the solution; (iii) support evolution of the solution and re-use of results in case of changing interoperability requirements...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: EDOC
• Authors: Dick A. C. Quartel, Stanislav Pokraev, Rodrigo Mantovaneli Pessoa, Marten van Sinderen
• Keywords: Actual Interoperability Problem, Distributed And Parallel Computing, EDOC 2008, Interoperability Problem, Service-Oriented Architectures