A Rest-based Resource-oriented Platform Framework For Enterprise Information Integration

With the progress of the information and network technology, the amount of the enterprise IT support system has been increased as well as the scope gradually extended. The enterprise begins to focus more and more attention on the business process issues and must face and try to solve the problem of enterprise application integration no matter how complex it is. In order to integrate the business process of enterprise information systems in heterogeneous environment, to overcome the shortcomings of traditional SOAP-based web service, such as lacking of addressability, connectedness, and uniform interface, this thesis presents framework of REST-based resource-oriented enterprise information integration platform.In this thesis, we research and analysis the problem in the resource based environment including how to formally representing the resource meta-model, how to describe the resource service and how to organized the service to represent the business process. The work mainly includes following aspects. 1. We propose a formal method to represent the resource meta-model according to the feature of enterprise resource and business process. 2. We analysis and model the semantic relationship between resource models aimed to establish the relevance of the resource to support the reconstruction and reuse of knowledge. 3. We analysis the definition and composition of the resource service and propose a method to describe the published RESTful service as well as a basic service request match algorithm. 4. We outline the model of REST-based resource-oriented enterprise information integration platform framework. Firstly we explain the responsibility of the resource support layer, service encapsulate layer and business execution layer. Then we provide the architecture, detail design and data model structure for the core components. 5. Finally, we build a prototype system based on J2EE and use a multi-role collaborative e-commerce business case to demonstrate the platform applies to business process level integration.This thesis presents a novel way to integrate heterogeneous systems with RESTful web services, and a prototype of REST-based resource oriented enterprise information integration platform is implemented based on the framework presented which opens a new prospect to traditional enterprise applications integration.