Integration of text-based applications into service-oriented architectures for transnational digital government

Significant efforts are currently being pursued by several countries and IT providers to deploy SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) designs of digital government systems that integrate or implement workflows of multiple software services and data sources. Unfortunately, many existing applications that can be useful in digital government are not implemented as Web Services, a fact that complicates their integration and interoperation within SOAs. To address this problem, this paper presents an approach to easily wrap text-based applications into Web Services. Compared to other application-wrapping approaches, this paper’s solution exposes a simpler interface to users, completely hiding the complexities of understanding and developing Web Services. The approach is motivated by, and effective for, the important case of interactive applications, which is harder than batch-oriented applications and has not been considered by other approaches or software development environments. The pape...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DGO
• Authors: Andréa M. Matsunaga, Maurício O. Tsugawa, José A. B. Fortes
• Keywords: DGO 2007, Digital Government, Digital Government Systems, Education, Web Services