Web oriented architectural styles for integrating service e-Marketplace systems

Robert Kutera , Wiesława Gryncewicz

Abstract

e-Marketplaces for services have faced many challenges in the last few years. Many factors, including user expectations, service specificity or technological development, influence the scope of requirements for integrated solutions on that market. Such an integration can help in creating the place in the cyberspace, where any user obtain an access to any service he or she actually needs. However, the integration isn’t an easy task, especially in such a diversified environment. That is why there is a need to find a suitable way of integrating the service e-marketplaces. Using loose coupling and WOA principles can make this task easier, what was proved during the real-life experiment, using the “consortium research” method. In the paper authors proposed the concept of integration of service e-marketplaces that bases on three foundations: user interface, data & business logic and security. In that context authors described the integration procedure which takes into account not only the c lassic software lifecycle, but also agile development principles. Having such foundations, verification of this procedure on the example from ActGo-Gate research project was performed. The high-level architecture of the project IT solution was presented and the way of integration of the offer synchronization process was described.