Research on Architecture of Collaborative Agreement Signing System

Online agreement signing is an important part of the whole electronic employment process. According to the technology characteristics of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the requirements of online agreement signing, this paper proposes an architecture design of SOA-based online collaborative agreement signing system. Comparing with traditional software architectures, this architecture has many advantages such as loose coupling, scalability and flexible combination of services. This paper also shows how the system interacts with other external systems or software, and describes web service model of the system in the last part.