Paper Info
Title
A Domain-Specific Language To Design Enterprise Application Integration Solutions
Abstract
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions cope with two kinds of problems within software ecosystems, namely: keeping a number of application's data in synchrony or creating new functionality on top of them. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) provides the technology required to implement a variety of EAI solutions at sensible costs, but they are still far from negligible. It is not surprising then that many authors are working on proposals to endow them with domain-specific tools to help software engineers reduce integration costs. In this article, we introduce a proposal called Guarana. Its key features are as follows: it provides explicit support to devise EAI solutions using enterprise integration patterns by means of a graphical model; its DSL enables software engineers to have not only the view of a process, but also a view of the whole set of processes of which an EAI solution is composed; both processes and tasks can have multiple inputs and multiple outputs; and, finally, its runtime system provides a task-based execution model that is usually more efficient than the process-based execution models in current use. We have also implemented a graphical editor for our DSL and a set of scripts to transform our models into Java code ready to be compiled and executed. To set up a solution from this code, a software engineer only needs to configure a number of adapters to communicate with the applications being integrated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1142/S0218843011002225
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Domain-Specific Language, enterprise application integration
Enterprise application integration,Enterprise system,Functional software architecture,Enterprise software,Computer science,Enterprise service bus,Enterprise information system,Enterprise integration,Database,System integration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
2
0218-8430
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.92
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rafael Z. Frantz14711.00
Antonia M. Reina Quintero2196.45
Rafael Corchuelo338949.87