Collaboration Technology Based On Web Services Architectural Design

With the development of science and technology, the social division of labor becomes moreand more complicated. The enterprises must optimize the allocation of resource from a much widerrange due to the development of architectural products and fierce market competition. Therefore,the development of products requires the cooperation of enterprises, research institutes and etc. Theenterprises should make full use of the information technology, which relies mainly on the network,and adopt new design models in order to improve their competition power. Thus, based on the swiftregional attribution and utilization of design resources, the enterprises can form the intra-firm orinter-firm cooperative design models.CSCW means that the group members work cooperatively in a sharing environment to achievethe design task by using computers, multi-media technologies and network communication. XMLrefers to the extend markup language, which is format-independent and unrelated to the platformand practical program. XML can be used not only to store structured data but also to define thelabels according to different fields and different industries. Besides, it can establish the criteria ofrecording professional data, which are called XML vocabulary. As long as all the relativeapplications can understand and support XML vocabulary, the share and interactive operation ofdata between different systems can be achieved. Web Services use the information processing ofXML as its basic interface description and means of data communication. Meanwhile, it adopts theopen criteria by W3C and highly generalizes the realization and application of the services. Thus, itcan eliminate the differences between systems caused by the adoption of different modules,operating systems and programming languages and finally achieve the interactive operation of dataand systems.Focusing on architectural designs, this paper proposes to put CSCW, which is based on webservices, to the exterior design of architecture. And this study has been put into practice on the basisof a full familiarity the exterior design of architecture. The main content of this paper is as follows:First of all, based on the actual demand of CSCW, it analyzes the functions of Web Services incooperative design and combines Web Services as well as CSCW with the exterior design ofarchitecture. And it then puts forward a cooperative design model based on Web ServicesSecondly, according to the system framework, it proposes the idea of a layered collaborativedesign process model based on priority -controlled method and a centralized -controlled conflictresolving method. This design can improve the cooperative efficiency achieve the complicated andspecialized exterior design of architecture. This method allows users to enter the design programand balances the innovation and knowledge of the users during the design process. All of thesefactors ensure the accuracy of results and the efficiency.Finally, according to the above research and analysis, this paper achieves a cooperative exteriordesign system of architecture based on Web Services. This system synthesizes the Web Services andCSCW and recurs to the .Net platform of Microsoft in order to achieve the design goal.This paper attempts to apply Web Services and CSCW to the exterior design of architecture.This model is easy to maintain and extend, which is fit for the widely geographical spread of thedesigners. The feasibility and effectiveness has been proved by practice.