An Approach to Constructing Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Application Dynamic Alliances
Li Hou · Chinese Journal of Computers · 2005
An approach to constructing service oriented and event driven application dynamic alliance is brought forward to cope with dynamic selection and self determinedly joining of partners in constructing and operating dynamic alliances. In the paper, a publish/subscribe based business event processing mechanism and a partner negotiation mechanism are introduced to enrich Service oriented Architecture. The fundamental concepts, such as business event, event processing, event subscription, business collective and dynamic alliance, are discussed first. Working principle of the approach, subscription information based partner discovery algorithms and negotiation aided partner selection are discussed thereafter. Guided by the approach and supported by the commercially available JMS and Message Queue service, a dynamic supply chain management system for an electronics manufacturing corporation is implemented.