Enablers Framework: Developing Applications Using FIWARE
Pedro Corista, João Gião, João Sarraipa, Oscar García Perales, Raquel Almeida, Néjib Moalla · 2018
This chapter proposes the enablers framework (EF), a component of the vf-OS project that acts as a bridge between applications and enablers, granting programmers an easy access to the services they need. This framework will thus open the possibility for several business opportunities to arise, since the integration of such versatile components is an alternative to the heterogeneous components used in the industrial panorama. The chapter focuses on the business opportunities that EF provides, considering software developers, manufacturing users and ICT providers. EF is the component that acts as a bridge between service providers and service consumers. There already exist approaches to work with FIWARE that allow one to integrate enablers with applications. The chapter provides a scenario that explains how the vApps can consume the enabler's services they need.