Integrating Service Oriented Architecture with a Virtual Research Environment

A Virtual Research Environment using Service Oriented Architecture is designed to support surgeons and scientists in Bone Laboratory in carrying out trials and disseminating results. Based on the existing VRE system, the new system is reengineered as a loosely coupled web/grid services. The report describes the procedure of how to redesign and re-implement the VRE with focus on the work flows and processes within the server architecture and external web services.