Ensuring architectural interoperability and portability

Architectural interoperability and portability are crucial aspects of modern software architecture, ensuring that applications can work across different environments and interact seamlessly with other systems. Let’s look at these concepts.

Making applications interoperable

Interoperability is the ability of one application to work with others through a standard format or protocol. Often, an application must communicate with various upstream systems to consume data and downstream systems to supply data, so it is essential to establish that communication seamlessly.

An e-commerce application, for example, needs to work with other applications in the supply chain management ecosystem. This includes enterprise resource planning applications to record all transactions, transportation life cycle management, shipping companies, order management, warehouse management, and labor management.

All applications should...