A Service Encapsulation Architecture for Engineering Software Based on SOOA

SOOA (Service object-oriented architecture) is suitable to construct the service sharing environment for engineering software on the dynamic network. After analyzing the service encapsulation requirements of engineering software, an SOOA-based service encapsulation architecture for engineering software (SooSEA) is proposed. In the developed SooSEA-based system, engineering software tools can be encapsulated as services by product developers without the need of programming, and the encapsulated services can be accessed and utilized through a standard Web browser. The efficient sharing of engineering software resources can be achieved in the dynamic network environment.