Abstrakt
Growing power of modern IT enables a growing autonomy of individual computer systems and as well as growing autonomy of the subsystems enabling their communication and collaboration. Such systems are continuously growing, tend to be more open, and tend to communicate with other systems.
We show that they can be seamlessly implemented if the M2M systems enable an easy human involvement into the agile development, (agile) supervision, and (agile) use of such systems. A feasible solution of these issues can be quite easily achieved if simple modifications of the attitudes from certain service-oriented systems are used.
We show that M2M systems can and often should be designed as component systems using connectors as services. The networks of such connectors behave like a service providing an architecture.
The resulting systems are very flexible, applicable in large service-oriented systems as well as with modern computer networks. It is an important engineering advantage.
The connectors as services are very useful in large information systems having service-oriented architecture. They increase flexibility enable agile development methods of such systems as well as of the business processes they support.
The existing opportunities have not been fully used up yet.