A Service-Oriented Business Rule-Based Application Platform in Pervasive Computing Environments

Abstract

Pervasive computing has created both new business opportunities and new challenges for the modern enterprises. An innovated business application integration pattern for collaborated enterprises with the traits of the variability and equality was presented, in which the key challenge is that there is not the need of a headquarters to govern the whole business across the enterprises with the common business processes. According to the requirements derived from this innovated pattern, a service-oriented business rule-based application platform in pervasive computing environments was proposed and some key challenging issues were researched in this paper. The architecture design of the application platform exploits service-oriented architecture and business rules-based approach to enhance the flexibility, scalability and dynamic adaptability of the business application. Business rule-based approach enables the application agilely adapt to the changeable market in both the level of service and service collaboration with the separated deployable rules. The implementation experience of a prototype has verified the feasibility of the proposed architecture in the pervasive computing environments.