Application Marketplace as a Service - A Reference Architecture for Application Marketplace Service

This research is subjected to propose an architecture for fast built and integrated a new marketplace service. For comparison to traditional manners of establishing a marketplace, the cost and the availability for operating and integrating the technology would be very huge. Therefore, the proposed system is named AMaaS, which redesigns the architecture that most online application marketplaces have, with concept of Software as a Service (SaaS). In addition, we preserve the feasible feature to conjunct with other optional functionalities, like payment service and certification service. The proposed system is a work in progress towards an internet service for mobile devices and applications.