Beyond e-commerce software quality: Web services effectiveness

The article describes a successful experience on a 30 man-month software project of the Technology Development Program (TDP) of thw Ministry Of Economic Affairs (MOEA) in Taiwan. In this research, attention is strictly focused on the interrelationships among key components that link between business processes, architecture-centric, and component-based systems to surpass the goal of software quality. The project presents a Web services model for building new era applications. It discusses the definition of Web services, the generic architecture of a Web services, and how our solution relates to Microsoft Windows DNA and .NET. We then conducted a Web services-enabled ERP application to validate the feasibility of a Web services programming model and confirm the corresponding fulfillment of software quality.