Service Oriented Architecture for Governing Engineering Colleges

In today’s world, more and more organizations are adopting automation. Educational institutions are also willing to have such automated environment. The challenge is to find a solution that is extendible, flexible and fits well with the existing legacy systems. Replacing legacy systems to cope with the new architecture is not only costly but also introduces the risk of malfunctioning. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is recommended which provides a relatively cheap and more cost-effective solution in addressing the problems and challenges of combing legacy system with new architecture. This Paper is focused on Service Oriented Architecture for e-governance of engineering institution. A e-governance based on SOA model is proposed and the services needed for the institution are implemented. Systems are developed for engineering institution which provided the services in student attendance system, staff attendance system, project maintenance system, alumni association system, library management system, laboratory management system, department information system, student information system, conference maintenance system, training and placement system, hostel management system, internal mark maintenance system, time table and syllabus system, fees maintenance system and scholarship maintenance system. The services needed for the above systems are implemented using .NET and J2EE. The services are used to implement applications like due certificate details, eligibility of a student for examination, eligibility of a student for campus interviews, etc.