A Service Based Development Environment on Web 2.0 Platforms
ServiceWave '08 Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Towards a Service-Based Internet
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Software integration and interoperability of systems are becoming one of the primary subjects of business managers. Interoperability problems have been a specific problem of technical managers but the globalisation and the IT era have upgraded the problem to the business domain. Managers are conscious that this new era forces them to reuse functionalities and avoid new developments. However, in the cases where they need a new development they need to architect the foreseen solution with capabilities to add new integrations and new functionalities with the existing ones. Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are deployed in a wide variety of organisations and it allows interoperability among stakeholders in order to improve their value chain and to provide better services to a wider range of customers. The evolution of technologies implies not only the adoption of new technologies or changes in these technologies but also in the organisation's culture, society and the emergence of new businesses. This evolution cannot be supported with the existing life cycles and tools. They need a methodological support and a development of appropriate tools. In this article, we present a specific method engineering approach for the construction of interoperable systems based on MDA and SOA paradigms. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.