A Service Oriented Paradigm to Support Collaborative Product development

Hongwei Wang, Heming Zhang, Shih-Wei Liao

Abstract: Collaborative product development is concerned with various experiences, knowledge, teams, tools, processes, etc. Effective communication and cooperation of these factors are the key issues that challenge the current computational architectures. A service oriented approach is proposed by us to integrate available resources from a repository in open standard. In our solution, functionality of the any computational resource is encapsulated as web services with a variety of granularities. The services are defined, registered, consumed and orchestrated in service oriented architecture (SOA). Key issues of our solution are studied. A prototype system supporting collaborative simulation is implemented to verify the feasibility of the solution. The result shows that service oriented computing is promising for collaborative product development.