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Dynamic Interoperability Between Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications

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Enterprise Interoperability has been becoming an important area of research to ensure the competitiveness and growth of enterprises. While Software as a Service (SaaS), the new service delivery model offers a set of advantages for enterprises in sharing software with lower cost, the loosely coupled and multi-tenant features of SaaS model bring new chanllenges of interoperability between two SaaS applications. This paper proposes a platform to delivery SaaS application for enterprises. Among the multi-tenant SaaS applications, service based interoperability is introduced by extending the SCA specification with interoperability interfaces. Then a method of service interoperability supported by ESB and a dynamic service routing mechanism is discussed in details. At last, an experiment is introduced to evaluate the dynamic routing mechanism and show the effectiveness.

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to acknowledge the support provided by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2009AA043506, 2011AA040603), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2009GM028, ZR2011FQ031).

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    Shijun Liu, Liwen Wang, Xiangxu Meng & Lei Wu

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Liu, S., Wang, L., Meng, X., Wu, L. (2012). Dynamic Interoperability Between Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications. In: Poler, R., Doumeingts, G., Katzy, B., Chalmeta, R. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability V. Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences, vol 5. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2819-9_19

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