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This White Paper is also available at The Jacada Web site.
Untangling the Application Morass White Paper: Building Agile Composite Applications with SOA
Untangling the Application Morass White Paper: Building Agile Composite Applications with SOA
May 2, 2010 by
Building SOA-Based Composite Applications Using NetBeans IDE 6
May 1, 2010 by
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In Detail
Composite applications aid businesses by stitching together various componentized business capabilities. In the current enterprise scenario, empowering business users to react quickly to the rapidly changing business environment is the topmost priority. With the advent of composite applications the `reuse’ paradigm has moved from the technical aspect to the business aspect. You no longer re-use a service. You re-use a business process. Now enterprises can define their own behaviors optimized for their businesses through metadata and flows. This business process composition has become increasingly important for constructing business logic.
The ability of composite applications to share components between them nullifies the distinction between actual applications. Business users should be able to move between the activities they need to do without any actual awareness that they are moving from one domain to another.
The composite application design enables your company to combine multiple heterogeneous technologies into a single application, bringing key application capabilities within reach of your business user. Enterprises creating richer composite applications by leveraging existing interoperable components increase the organization’s ability to respond quickly and cost-effectively to emerging business requirements.
While there are many vendors offering various graphical tools to create composite applications, this book focuses on using the BPEL service engine from the OpenESB project for solving business integration problems. Project OpenESB implements an Enterprise Service Bus runtime using Java Business Integration (JBI) as the base. This allows easy integration of web services to create loosely coupled enterprise-class composite applications.
The objective of this book is to help enterprise application architects and developers to understand various SOA tools available as part of the NetBeans IDE that will enable them to build an enterprise-grade, scalable application in a short period using a single development interface. The NetBeans SOA tools form an open-source and freely available add-on to the NetBeans IDE that is targeted for enterprise application development. This pack contains open-sourced features from Sun’s Java Studio Enterprise and Java CAPS products, as well as all-new features for creating composite applications, BPEL-based web services, secure Java EE web services, and real-world XML artifacts like XML Schema and WSDL. Part of NetBeans Enterprise Pack is integrated with NetBeans 6.0, so you don’t need to download additional add-ons or plug-ins if you are using NetBeans version 6.0 or higher. However, not all OpenESB components are integrated with NetBeans 6.0. For instance you may not be able to create an Intelligent Event Processor using the standard NetBeans IDE; these components can be downloaded and installed into the NetBeans IDE.
What you will learn from this book?
- Basic understanding of SOA and BPEL Processes
- Setting up NetBeans IDE, OpenESB runtime, and BPEL engine
- Designing BPEL processes
- Packaging and deploying BPEL processes
- JBI runtime and GlassFish Application Server.
- Using the JBI service engine in NetBeans
- OpenESB Binding Components, Service Engines, and other tools
- Using the WSDL Editor for enterprise applications
- Rapid development and testing with the XML schema designer
- Working with the Intelligent Event Processor (IEP) module and the IEP Service Engine
- Fault handling within a BPEL process
Approach
This book introduces basic SOA concepts and shows how you can use NetBeans and OpenESB tools to design and deploy composite applications. After introducing the SOA concepts, you are introduced to various NetBeans Editors and aids that you need to understand and work with for designing a composite application. For example you are introduced to a WSDL editor before dealing with web services. The last part of the book deals with a full-fledged incremental example on how you can build a complex composite application with key screenshots accompanied by the source code available on the website.
Who this book is written for?
This book is for enterprise developers and architects interested in using NetBeans IDE and OpenESB tools to build their SOA based applications.
Building SOA-Based Composite Applications Using NetBeans IDE 6
Oracle SOA Suite Developer’s Guide
April 28, 2010 by
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Design and build Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions with the Oracle SOA Suite 10gR3
- A hands-on guide to using and applying the Oracle SOA Suite in the delivery of real-world SOA applications.
- Detailed coverage of the Oracle Service Bus, BPEL Process Manager, Web Service Manager, Rules, Human Workflow, and Business Activity Monitoring.
- Master the best way to combine / use each of these different components in the implementation of a SOA solution.
- Illustrates key techniques and best practices using a working example of an online auction site (oBay).
In Detail
We are moving towards a standards-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), where IT infrastructure is continuously adapted to keep up with the pace of business change. Oracle is at the forefront of this vision, with the Oracle SOA Suite providing the most comprehensive, proven, and integrated tool kit for building SOA based applications.
Developers and Architects using the Oracle SOA Suite, whether working on integration projects, building composite applications, or specializing in implementations of Oracle Applications, need a hands-on guide on how best to harness and apply this technology.
This book will guide you on using and applying the Oracle SOA Suite to solve real-world problems, enabling you to quickly learn and master the technology and its applications.
The initial section of the book is aimed at providing you with a detailed hands-on tutorial to each of the core components that make up the Oracle SOA Suite; namely the Oracle Service Bus, BPEL Process Manager, Human Workflow, Business Rules, and Business Activity Monitoring. Once you are familiar with the various pieces of the SOA Suite and what they do, the next question will typically be: “What is the best way to combine / use all of these different components to implement a real-world SOA solution?”
Answering this question is the goal of the next section. Using a working example of an online auction site (oBay), it leads you through key SOA design considerations in implementing a robust solution that is designed for change. Though the examples in the book are based on Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.4 the book will still be extremely useful for anyone using 11g.
The final section addresses non-functional considerations and covers the packaging, deployment, and testing of SOA applications; it then details how to use Web Service Manager to secure and administer SOA applications.
What you will learn from this book?
- Learn to use key technology adapters to service-enable existing systems
- Build implementation-agnostic services using the Oracle Service Bus
- Assemble services to build composite services and long-running business process using BPEL
- Initiate and discover how business rules can be used to externalize “decision points” in a BPEL process
- Incorporate Human Workflow into your processes and use Business Rules to provide greater agility
- Design XML schemas and service contracts for improved agility, reuse, and interoperability
- Examine different approaches either from scratch or by re-using existing logic for building new business services
- Observe the protocols available in addition to SOAP over HTTP for invoking Web Services and the advantages they provide
- Create, deploy, and run test cases that automate the testing of composite applications
- Secure and administer SOA applications using Web Service Manager
- Architect, design, and implement your overall SOA Solution
- Design your Web Service contracts for interoperability and maintainability
Approach
This book is a comprehensive guide, split into three sections. The initial section of the book provides an introduction to the Oracle SOA Suite and its various components, and will give you a fast-paced hands-on introduction to each of the key components in turn. The next section illustrates the usage of the various components of the SOA Suite to implement a real-world SOA-based solution with the help of an example of an online auction site (oBay). The final section covers other considerations such as the packaging, deployment, testing, security, and administration of SOA applications.
Who this book is written for?
This book targets developers and technical architects who work in the SOA domain. The primary purpose of the book is to provide them with a “hands on” practical guide to using and applying the Oracle SOA Suite in the delivery of real-world composite applications.
It presumes basic understanding of the concepts of SOA, as well as some of the key standards in this space, including web services (SOAP, WSDL), XML Schemas, and XSLT (and XPath).
Build Service Oriented Composite Applications with new Book on Oracle SOA Suite 11g
April 27, 2010 by
Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 is a new book from Packt that helps develop service-oriented composite application using the much anticipated Oracle SOA Suite 11g. Written by Oracle SOA Suite Product Management team members, this book walks the reader through the development of a services-oriented applications based on a real-life scenario.
Oracle’s SOA Suite 11g is an integrated, best-of-breed solution that helps build and manage large, highly demanding SOA projects. This book offers a hands-on approach to learning Oracle SOA Suite 11g and provides a comprehensive overview of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g Product Architecture.
This book provides an introduction to key SOA concepts, and emerging standards such as Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Services Data Object (SDO). Users will learn the fundamentals of Oracle SOA Suite 11g platform infrastructure, including; Web-Service Binding, Mediator and Database Adapter as well as understand the core components that make up the Oracle SOA Suite; namely BPEL, Human Workflow, Business Rules, and JMS Adapter.
Developers will learn to enhance their composite application with Policy-based Fault Handling, Business Events, Sensors, and Security policies. They will be shown how to enhance their project with Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and B2B integration in addition to using the Oracle Service Bus for service virtualization. Additionally, developers learn to assemble services in order to build composite services and long-running business process.
This book is ideal for both new and experienced SOA developers looking for a hands-on approach to learning Oracle SOA Suite 11g will find this book useful. For more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-oracle-soa-suite-11g-r1/book
Heidi Buelow is a product manager with Oracle focusing on SOA technologies. Manas Deb is a senior director in the Fusion Middleware/SOA, BPM, Governance Suites Product Group at Oracle HQ. Jayaram Kasi is a product manager with Oracle, and focuses on SOA technologies. Demed L’Her is Director of Product Management at Oracle, where he is responsible for the Oracle SOA Suite. He has been with Oracle since 2006, focusing on ESB, JMS and next-generation SOA platforms.Prasen Palvankar is a Director of Product Management at Oracle and is responsible for outbound SOA Suite product related activities including field and partner enablement, training, and providing strategic support to Oracle’s SOA Suite current and prospective customers.
BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development: Ten practical real-world case studies combining business … management and web services orchestration
April 27, 2010 by
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Ten practical real-world case studies combining business process management and web services orchestration
- Real-world BPEL recipes for SOA integration and Composite Application development
- Combining business process management and web services orchestration
- Techniques and best practices with downloadable code samples from ten real-world case studies
In Detail
Service Oriented Architecture is generating a buzz across the whole IT industry. Propelled by standards-based technologies like XML, Web Services, and SOAP, SOA is quickly moving from pilot projects to mainstream applications critical to business operations. One of the key standards accelerating the adoption of SOA is Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL).
BPEL was created to enable effective composition of web services in a service-oriented environment. In the past two years, BPEL has become the most significant standard to elevate the visibility of SOA from IT to business level. BPEL is not only commoditizing the integration market, but it is also offering organizations a whole new level of agility – ability to rapidly change applications in response to the changing business landscape. BPEL enables organizations to automate their business processes by orchestrating services within and across the firewall. It forces organizations to think in terms of services. Existing functionality is exposed as services. New applications are composed using services. Communication with external vendors and partners is through services. Services are reused across different applications. Services are, or should be, everywhere!
What you will learn from this book?
In the Packt book Business Process Execution Language for Web Services by Matjaz Juric, we learnt about the building blocks and how these technologies could be used to build a simple SOA solution. As organizations increase their SOA footprint, IT Managers, Architects, and developers are starting to realize that the impact of SOA on IT and business operations can be immense. After having gained confidence with web services, they want to take it to the next level. However, adopters are challenged with some basic questions – How do I SOA-enable my existing integration investment? Can I build flexible and agile business processes? How can I administer my SOA environment without spending a fortune? There have been various best practices defined around SOA, but to date these have been somewhat abstract and lacking a real-world basis. The IT community is looking for real-world examples; examples of how other companies are embarking on an SOA initiative and how to apply that industry learning to their own projects.
What makes this a Cookbook? After you have been exposed to the different ingredients (BPEL, WSDL, and web services), this book takes the adventure to the next level by helping you cook new recipes (SOA applications) using efficient kitchen techniques (best practices). 10 SOA practitioners have gotten together to share their SOA best practices and provide practical viewpoints to tackle many of the common problems SOA promises to solve. Their recommendations are based on projects in production; their existing projects could be your next ones. Through this process you’ll learn the techniques and gain the confidence to create and deliver the recipe that’s right for your particular situation.
Who this book is written for?
This book is aimed at architects and developers building applications in Service Oriented Architecture. The book presumes knowledge of BPEL, SOA, XML, web services, and multi-tier architectures.
