Systematic Approaches for Designing B2B Applications
本文提出一个框架，帮助设计者从业务流程确定到技术架构生成，系统评估和选择B2B应用的设计方案，以应对集成设计的复杂性。
The advent of the Internet has encouraged trading partners to collaborate electronically by leveraging the type of distributed applications usually referred to as business-to-business (B2B) applications. A review of the literature on B2B integration shows that designing B2B solutions is inherently complex because of the need to make integration design decisions at different levels of abstraction. For every decision, there may be several possible solutions offering different levels of quality. These alternatives may be offered in the form of integration approaches, patterns, models, technologies, standards, or protocols. In addition, integration design decisions and alternatives are often highly interdependent. Therefore, new approaches are needed to alleviate the design complexity of B2B applications. A framework is discussed that would help designers navigate design decisions and alternatives from early business process determination through the generation of technology-dependent integration architecture. Using patterns appropriately, the framework would enable designers to systematically evaluate and select design alternatives based on their quality attributes.