The validation process and component analysis in enterprise integration

In a rapidly changing development environment, componentisation is crucial as both reuse and agility are basic requirements for maintaining a consistent responsiveness between business and IT. This study proposes a framework of metadata-based component development aiming to achieve service virtualisation through multidisciplines and multisteps process. It also develops service interoperability which can identify and validate component easily. Based on the strategy, a roadmap is provided in full life cycle. The proposed techniques, the multidisciplines and dimensional services, have been applied in industry in constructing the skeleton of service-based architecture and consequently constructing the foundation of service virtualisation. Copyright © 2008 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.