| <p><b><a href="/alf/">Application Lifecycle Management</a></b> <br/> |
| An Application Lifecycle is the continuum of activities required to |
| support an enterprise application from its initial inception through |
| its deployment and system optimization. |
| </p><p> |
| The goal of the ALF project is to solve this integration problem |
| by introducing a central negotiator that manages interactions |
| between applications. This service-oriented event manager |
| provides a very useful uncoupling function. Using an intermediate |
| communication format prevents having to integrate an application |
| several times with several other applications, and simply carries |
| out one integration on the central node. The central node then |
| carries out communication with other applications through |
| orchestration of their corresponding web services. |
| </p> |
