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12.7. Deployment

Now that the discovery and invocation framework has been considered, the Omega-3 team needs to develop the deployment architecture for the AmCAR Procurement ecosystem. The deployment of Omega-3 needs to:

• Be secure

• Operate across multiple firewalls on respective engines

• Provide a persistent architecture

• Facilitate easy event access by all entities

• Support out-of-band interactions

In the following discussion, we expand the security requirement in detail because it is an extremely important part of the deployment. The lack of a strong security policy could cause concern among participants. Hence, any deployment that involves opening up some portion of a business process to partners is going to be scrutinized for security holes. We ...