are collections of business and IT services. Composites work together to provide on-demand business solutions. Composites are aggregates generated via orchestration or choreography methods and are supposed to automate business processes. There is a direct mapping between composites and processes and hence composites, being highly business-aligned and coarse-grained, could be easily handled and manipulated by business analysts and executives.
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Tending and Trekking towards Composite Oriented Architecture (COA)
Pethuru Raj Chelliah (Wipro Technologies, India)
Copyright: © 2010
|Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-669-3.ch016
Abstract
With the noteworthy spurt of service orientation (SO) principles, the spur and surge for composition paradigm have taken a fabulous and fruitful dimension and perspective. Composites are emerging and establishing as the promising, proven and potential building-blocks in the pulsating ICT space. Enterprises are very optimistic and sensitive about the shining days of composites in their day-to-day dealings and obligations to their restive partners, government agencies, venerable customers, demanding end-users, and loyal employees. In short, composites are bound to increasingly and illuminatingly participate and contribute towards fulfilling the goals of realizing integrated, optimized, smart and lean business processes that in turn can lead to extended, connected, adaptive, and on-demand businesses. As next-generation ICT is presumed to thrive on spontaneous and seamless collaboration among systems, services, servers, sensors, etc. by sending messages as well as smartly sharing a wider variety of connected and empowered resources, there arises a distinct identity and value for progressive, penetrative and pervasive composites. Already we started to read, hear and experience composite applications, services, and views. As composition is to flower and flourish in a positive fashion, the future IT is definitely on right track. In this chapter, you can find discussions about how rapidly and smoothly services enable business-aligned composites realization. There are sections dealing with prominent composition paradigms, patterns, platforms, processes, practices, products, perspectives, problems and potentials.