The Research And Implemetation Of Forwarder Information Platform

Many international forwarders have developed from traditional transportation, customs broker, warehouse or foreign trade companies. There are different platforms, databases, and different information systems concerning exchange.For the specialization of forwarder industry, it needs building network to promote bussiness, many company set branches in big cities. Therefore, a forwarder group has many different systems inside, and these systems are separated as information islands. It is an urgent issue as to how to integrate those information systems and facilitate the whole process and enlarge its business partners and survives competition. With XML data transfer and exchange technic, Building a service oriented and opening information platform base on SOA design principles, offers an effective solution to solve the above problem. Therefore, it saves the integrative cost and improves the whole efficiency.This paper firstly analyzes the technology of Object-Orientd, Web Service and SOA principles, presents a system framework and implements the information platform base on it. Then this paper makes a detail analysis on the core business of forwarder, and decides the developing principles and tools, also specifies the design methods. Finally, The system utilizes .Net Stodio, VC++, C# languages and correlative tools to realize those services, such as information exchange and information distribution of different customers, data access connectivity, service description and customer access.The system has good practicability, stability and expansibility as well as high efficiency. The research of the system will be useful to the development of similar application systems.