Experience with a Model-Driven Approach for Enterprise-Wide Interface Specification and XML Schema Generation

  • Authors:
  • Lisa Bahler;Francesco Caruso;Josephine Micallef

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • EDOC '03 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Market drivers to deliver software-based businesssolutions faster and cheaper have promoted the evolutionof software system architectures toward assemblies ofencapsulated components offering well-defined services- a service-oriented architecture. Software vendors areeager to adopt and exploit new technologies, such asXML and Web Services, to meet the market demands, butface significant challenges due to their existing softwareasset base and entrenched development processes. Thispaper presents a case study of the use of a methodologyand toolset, known as CAIDE (Computer Aided InterfaceDesign Environment), developed to address thesechallenges for a complex family of telecommunicationsapplications. Our main objective was to provide a simplebut expressive high-level meta-model for specifyingsystem interfaces, and to automatically generate XMLschemas for the interfaces consistently across theapplication family, constraining the use of schemaconstructs according to enterprise-wide policies, andpromoting reuse by composition.