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Title:
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IMPLEMENTING E-BUSINESS INTEROPERABILITY WITH VERTICAL DOMAIN APIs FOR WEB SERVICES |
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Author(s):
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George Feuerlicht , Sooksathit Meesathit |
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ISBN:
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972-99353-0-0 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías and Nitya Karmakar |
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Year:
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2004 |
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Edition:
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1 |
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Keywords:
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Interface design, e-Business interoperability, Web services. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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262 |
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Last Page:
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269 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Interoperability of e-business applications has been the subject of intensive research and development effort over a number of years. The principal challenge is to ensure interoperability in an environment characterized by a large number of autonomous partner organizations with different technology platforms and business semantics. Traditional e-business approaches such as EDI use document interchange as the interoperability mechanism and suffer from limited scalability, poor flexibility, and high implementation costs. The emergence of Web services creates an opportunity to address e-business interoperability in the context of service-oriented computing. In this paper we discuss the benefits of the service-centric interoperability model and identify the need for standardization of service interfaces within vertical application domains. We then briefly address the problem of designing vertical domain APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for Web services-based e-business applications, illustrating the approach using a travel application example. |
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