A Versatile SOA-based E-Business Platform

SOA is an IT architecture style, which has been proved to be able to help enterprise adapt rapid change and intensive competition. But practicing SOA is difficult, time-consuming and costly. Even worse, after a company manages to implement SOA, it still finds itpsilas difficult to apply it to the partners that havenpsilat enabled SOA yet. In this paper, we design an e-business platform featuring Web services-based SOA. Its basic subsystems establish a social and commercial zone by employing mashups; its intelligent agent detects events defined by users and reacts on behalf of users; its business process coordinator directs and coordinates business process through BPEL; its data sharing controller provides data sharing and notification between users. The highlight of this platform is: for SOA-ready enterprises, they can maximize their investment returns on SOA; for SOA-unready ones, they can still enjoy the services that the platform provides.