Interoperability Mismatch Challenges in Heterogeneous SOA-based Systems

Abstract

In Industry 4.0, systems with a heterogeneous implementation, different architecture, protocols, and semantics have to be integrated into collaborative environments. The interoperability between them has become a major challenge in this new ecosystem of the industry, thereby generating several research questions about how to manage the information exchange and collaboration between systems with so vastly different properties.This paper presents a detailed investigation of the different mismatch problems that can happen in the information exchange in heterogeneous SOA-based environments where the interoperability is crucial. The proposed solution in this paper is an Adapter System that can aid generatation of new service consumer interfaces at both compile-time and run-time. The interfaces are based on Service Contracts, thereby allowing heterogeneous systems to communicate and interchange services.The proposed approach requires a new point of view in the service description field that can provide a holistic description of the information required for creating both run-time and compiletime consumer interfaces.

Autonomous Runtime Consumer Interface Generation and Deployment for Service Interoperability

“…The description of the service interface and the identification of the service mismatches are necessary for the generation of [2] https://www.arrowhead.eu/arrowheadframework/ the code. As first introduced in [6], the format selected for this scenario is a service contract description. The definition of this format is not a part of the scope of this paper.…”

Smart City Solution Engineering

“…SOA is, to a large extent, the dominant approach for creating automation and digitalization solutions in industrial production, smart grids, smart environments, etc. We currently find a smaller number of edge solution frameworks/platforms; a recent review of such industrial frameworks/platforms is [4]. However, in what way can these types of platforms be used for smart city engineering?…”

Overview of Service Interface Design Approaches for Interoperability of Traditional System Integration Patterns

“…Systems need to share information by sharing data and functionality of systems involved but it comes from manufacturer or developer that tended to not interoperate (L'Amrani et al, 2020;Buyle, 2017;Roshen, 2009). Impacts from this situation, information is unable to exchange effectively and this leads to the interoperability problem in SI (Paniagua et al, 2019;Masethe et al, 2016). Things get worse when this legacy system uses traditional SI methods that are less interoperable.…”

“…Indeed, the success of interactions among the systems depends on how well the service interfaces are exposed. The stability of the service interfaces in solving the SI problem has been the subject of many researchers such as in (L'Amrani et al, 2020;Paniagua et al, 2019;Madni & Sievers, 2014;Masethe et al, 2016;Teo and Kadir, 2006;Henkel & Zdrakovic, 2005). To address the interoperability issues (Rezaei et al, 2014), interfacing processes need to be made more easily by defining components, subsystems, processes, and interfaces that affect the SI architecture at the initial design stage.…”