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(Inter)facing the Business

Authors:
Alexander Hagemann
Gerrit Krepinsky

Keywords: interface; business process; interface design; interface migration; distributed systems

Abstract:
Over the past decades, a change from singular mainframe applications into complex distributed application landscapes has occured. Consequently, the execution of business processes takes place in a distributed manner, requiring an extensive amount of communication between different applications. It becomes apparent that application interfaces are of overall significance within distributed application landscapes. But in our experience, interfaces usually do not get the required attention during construction, which is in contrast to their importance. Instead, only technical descriptions, e.g., syntactical descriptions, are given and important functional as well as operational aspects have been omitted leading to unstable and unneccesary complex interfaces. To address the aforementioned problems, this paper contributes a comprehensive overview on interface construction. Therefore, all necessary interface specification components, an interface design process and operational migration patterns are given.

Pages: 1 to 7

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: July 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8475

ISBN: 978-1-61208-497-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 24, 2016 to July 28, 2016