DESIGN OF APPLICATION INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE USING SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE CASE STUDY OF BUSINESS ACTOR REGISTRATION

• Main Author: Abdul Somad, Walim
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/68263
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Management of marine and fisheries resources involves interrelated business processes. The business process is implemented into a web-based application with the main users being business actors. Business actors must register themselves on a central application as a prerequisite for registering on a licensing application. Application integration is currently carried out by sharing valid business actor data from the central application to the licensing application through data services on point-to-point channels. The problem is that business actors must register for the same data on different applications. In addition, the validation process between the central application and the licensing application also involves the same steps. The registration and validation process for business actors can be integrated to reduce steps for business actors and validators. The registration and validation functions in the central application can be used as a service for use in licensing applications as a client. However, the abstraction level of the central application does not allow for better reusability. There needs to be an architectural design that can increase the reuse of components to be used in other applications so as to increase efficiency for business actors. The design of the application integration architecture is carried out using a Service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach and developed using the service- oriented computing architecture modeling method (SOCAM) which provides convenience with the availability of guidelines for users. SOA allows reuse of software components and can exchange information (interoperable) through service interfaces. In this study, application integration with SOA was carried out in a case study of the application process for the issuance of cards for the main actors of marine and fisheries. The resulting service is then used by other business processes to prove the SOA principle, which is loosely coupled and reusable. The results showed that the SOCAM method can produce an application integration architecture design that can improve reusability. The results of the implementation of the architecture show a low coupling factor, high cohesion factor, low complexity factor, and high reusability factor. Architectural design can increase efficiency as indicated by the reduced number of steps that must be taken by business actors in registering by up to 57 percent, and the reduction in the number of steps for validators in validating up to 71 percent. The implementation of the application integration architecture shows that the average execution time of business actor registration is reduced by 51 percent, while the average execution time of business actor validation is reduced by 71 percent.