Using Service-Orientation and ESB to Leverage Integration for Increased Flexibility

• Main Author: Lundström, Johan
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Social Behaviour Law; Samhälls-; beteendevetenskap; juridik; Integration; service-oriented architecture; web services
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-50983

With businesses’ and organizations’ steadily growing dependence on IT, the infrastructure of Information Systems has become a lot more complex. Reasons such as company mergers and continuously changing markets have made system integration an increasingly important factor for companies today. This was the background for the following study which sought to solve a company’s system integration problem through the use of a more modern, service-oriented approach. A need for systems to communicate and exchange information in a more reliable and efficient manner had yielded demands for an improved integration. Therefore, the objective was to design a robust and flexible architecture that would handle all of the current systems integration needs while the purpose was to find evidence of whether the use of service-orientation along with the introduction of an Enterprise Service Bus would deliver project value.The resulting prototype makes use of a web service and an Enterprise Service Bus to deliver the functions necessary to satisfy the requirements. Several of the requirements were met through the very use of service-orientation which played a small but nonetheless instrumental part in the construction and development process of the integration solution. === <p>Validerat; 20160616 (global_studentproject_submitter)</p>