Adapting LMS Architecture to the SOA: An Architectural Approach

Miguel Ángel Conde González, Francisco José García Peñalvo, María José Casany Guerrero, Marc Alier Forment
2009 2009 Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services  
Service oriented approaches (SOA) are currently used to develop new software-as-a-service applications, but they can also be used in the reengineering of existing legacy systems, such as Learning Management Systems (LMS). The introduction of a SOA to reengineer current LMS can provide LMS with the ability to deliver internal functions as services as well as the ability to integrate external applications as services. This paper presents an architectural approach to adapt the Moodle LMS to the
more » ... and some important issues involved in the adaptation are analyzed. Taking into account interoperability specifications, all SOA to LMS adaptation drawbacks are solved by the application of the new architecture.
doi:10.1109/iciw.2009.54 dblp:conf/iciw/GonzalezPGF09 fatcat:3ffs7u4ewrcalgqjxutajwzoi4