Reuse of existing applications during the development of Enterprise Portals integrating Web Services

TL;DR

This paper discusses a software engineering approach for developing enterprise portals that integrate heterogeneous existing applications using web services, addressing design, modeling, and integration challenges.

Contribution

It introduces a novel software engineering solution specifically for creating web services-based enterprise portals that effectively incorporate existing heterogeneous systems.

Findings

Proposes a lifecycle model for enterprise portal development

Demonstrates integration of heterogeneous systems via web services

Provides a practical framework for portal design and implementation

Abstract

During these last years, the use of the web technologies in the enterprises becomes an essential factor to define a new business model. Among these technologies, web services and enterprise portals have gathered to integrate existing heterogeneous systems such as e-commerce, eservices hub and e-learning. However, the design and the modeling of the portals, on the one hand, and their integration with the existing applications, on the other hand, are still two points open for discussion. The first problem is related to the development of the lifecycle that can be used for designing and modeling the enterprise portals. For the second problem, which is the integration of the existing applications, the discussion is intended towards the use of technologies based on web services. In This paper, we present a software engineering solution for the development of Web services-based enterprise portals.