System Integration Using Model-Driven Engineering
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, Zoltán Molnár, Ákos Lédeczi · IGI Global eBooks · 2009
With the emergence of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) component middleware technologies software system integrators are increasing faced with the task of integrating heterogeneous enterprise distributed systems built using different COTS technologies. Although there are well-documented patterns and techniques for system integration using various middleware technologies, system integration is still largely a tedious and error-prone manual process. This chapter provides three contributions to the study of functional integration of distributed enterprise systems. First, we describe the challenges associated with functionally integrating software for these types of systems. Second, we describe how the composition of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) can simplify the functional integration of enterprise distributed systems. Third, we demonstrate how composing DSMLs can solve functional integration problems in an enterprise distributed system case study by reverse engineering an existing CCM system and exposing it as Web service(s) to Web clients who use these services.