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CoBIs Service Oriented Architecture



Relocation of Business Process Logic: A Service-Oriented Approach

The major technical outcome of the CoBIs project is a novel distributed service-oriented architecture. This architecture should enable the flexible and, at least partly, automated composition/decomposition and management of services, in order to delegate certain parts of the supported business logic functionality to smart physical entities. Service orientation is a very desirable approach, because it allows seamless integration in today's business software, which is built more and more in a service-oriented way. Services have the advantage of providing information throughout the enterprise in a platform and language independent manner.

Figure showing CoBIs model

Business Services

  • Application dependent functionality
  • "What ist the average temperature in the west side of the storage area"

Management Services

  • Monitoring, control and deployment of services
  • Power management, Response times, Service availability, ...

Enabling Services

  • Collaboration between nodes
  • Reliable transport of sensor data, Synchronization, Consensus, ...

CoBIs Service Oriented Architecture: A schematic overview

The technical goal of the CoBIs Service Oriented Architecture is to enable the on-demand usage and flexible combination, i.e. composition, of independent services provided by a heterogeneous software and hardware landscape. In addition to that, we also stress the seamless technical integration of our framework into existing (standardized) service-oriented platforms. As a result, existing (or future) application systems, such as SAP solutions, can directly profit from CoBIs services.

For a more detailed description, see Deliverable D101: "Relocatable services and service classification scheme".

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