Title: Case study of micro-component design and industry integration

Authors: Raymond Wu

Addresses: IBM Software Group, IBM CDL, Diamond Bldg, ZGC Software Park #19, Dongbeiwang West Road #8, Haidian District, Beijing 100094, PR China

Abstract: According to our three steps plan, enterprise integration requires ontology of elements, services transformation and virtualisation to reach the goal. Componentisation is critical and also the first step in component-based service design; it identifies each component in business, service and physical layers to build up the alignment and inter-layer interoperability. This research paper focuses on identification and specification of components and uses examples in the industry to demonstrate how services are derived from business components, and how they are designed and produced in achieving service virtualisation. This paper also reviews micro-component design in order to achieve macro-component-based service virtualisation.

Keywords: component design; enterprise integration; financial services; service transformation; ontology; component-based service design; interoperability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIM.2009.025368

International Journal of Intercultural Information Management, 2009 Vol.1 No.3, pp.248 - 258

Published online: 19 May 2009 *

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