Capability profile for enterprise application integration

Abstract

Open source applications are becoming more and more important and many companies use these applications in their own work to realize projects faster, better and cheaper. But in some cases, the entire use of an open source application is not necessary, with the need to use only one functionality of an open source application to link or integrate it with another application. This paper presents a positioning for a framework to use open source application decomposition in specific functionalities (features) as conceptual view for enterprise applications integration. The decomposed feature will be exposed as an Application Programming Interface (API) to support enterprise integration. Our solving approach uses a standardized methodology for manufacturing software interoperability through capability profiling provided by the ISO 16100 series, and which is also applicable and usable for developing general software applications including enterprise applications.