Product Description

Composing Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions with PHP and Open-Source ActiveBPEL

• Build Web Services with PHP
• Combine PHP Web Services into orchestrations with WS-BPEL
• Use better WS-BPEL to enable parallel processing and asynchronous communication
• Simplify WS-BPEL development with free graphical tool ActiveBPEL Designer

In Detail

When utilized within a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services are part of a business process determining the logical order of service activities – logical units of work performed by one or more services. Today, the most popular tool for organizing service activities into business processes is Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL), a language defining an execution format for business processes operating on Web Services. While it is not a trivial task to define a business process definition with WS-BPEL from scratch, using a graphical WS-BPEL tool can significantly simplify this process.

Examples and practice are much more valuable than theory when it comes to building applications using specific development tools. Unlike many other books on SOA in the market, this book is not focused on architecture. Instead, through numerous examples, it discusses practical aspects of SOA and WS-BPEL development, showing you how to apply architecture in practice with the help of PHP, ActiveBPEL open-source engine, and ActiveBPEL Designer – powerful development tools available for free.

What you will learn from this book?

• Install and configure the software components required to build PHP Web Services and then combine them into WS-BPEL solutions
• Use PHP as the underlying technology for creating building blocks for SOAs
• Build data-centric services based on MySQL or Oracle Database XE
• Secure services built with PHP SOAP extension
• Combine fine-grained services built with PHP into coarse-grained ones with WS-BPEL
• Deploy WS-BPEL process services to ActiveBPEL open-source engine
• Simplify WS-BPEL development with ActiveBPEL Designer
• Implement asynchronous interactions between WS-BPEL processes

Approach

With the help of many examples, the book explains how to build Web Services with PHP, combine them into SOAs with WS-BPEL, and then deploy composite WS-BPEL-based solutions to the ActiveBPEL engine. The examples in this book are presented in a way that anyone can understand and apply.

Who this book is written for?

This book is suitable for anyone who wants to start building SOA applications using powerful tools available free of charge. It also will be useful for PHP developers willing to move towards Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Readers need only a basic knowledge of SOA, BPEL, and Web Services; even a total beginner will be able to follow the examples, provided the required software components are installed on his or her computer. More experienced readers might use this book as a reference, focusing only on the chapters of interest.

SOA and WS-BPEL: Composing Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions with PHP and Open-Source ActiveBPEL

Helps Enterprises Realize the Vision of SOA

To ease the development of Web Services applications, BPEL Maestro 1.5 allows enterprises and system integrators to create Web service business processes using a simple flexible GUI. Companies will be able to deploy their Web service business applications faster with few resources. Complex Web Service applications, such as adjusting business processes and associated data integration, can be quickly changed.

“BPEL processes need to be executed by a runtime engine that supports a number of requirements, including native support for Web service standards as well as asynchronous messaging, process persistence, and transactional models consistent with long-term processes,” Jim Clune, director of WS Technology for Parasoft.” Parasoft BPEL Maestro satisfies these requirements by offering a unique set of technologies, and gives companies unprecedented ease-of-use and flexibility when it comes to driving Web Services business processes.”

About Parasoft BPEL Maestro

Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5 is a 100 percent native BPEL integration platform. Based on participation and contribution to many of the web and Web Services standards bodies (e.g. WS-I and OASIS), it contains a BPEL engine and toolkit built from the ground up to strictly adhere to Web Services standards. Features include:

• Asynchronous messaging via both JMS and SOAP/HTTP with WS-Addressing.
• Process persistence through a standard RDBMS.
• Scalability through automatic dehydration of process instances into persistent storage.
• Transactional integrity through both a short-term atomic transactional model and a long-running compensation-based model.
• Application level correlation of messages in extended, stateful conversations.
• Full-featured toolkit in the Eclipse development environment for developing, debugging, and managing BPEL processes.
• Web Service standards as basis, including BPEL, WSDL, SOAP, XML, HTTP, JMS and WS-Addressing.

“Enterprises using Web Services need not only flawless execution of complex business processes but also to reduce the time and effort to deploy those processes,” said Wayne Ariola, Vice President of Corporate Development for Parasoft Corporation. ” Parasoft BPEL Maestro 1.5 increases development productivity by providing enterprises with a fast, flexible and cost effective way to implement robust and secure Web Services utilizing industry accepted standards.”

Availability
Parasoft BPEL Maestro is available for Linux, Windows XP/2000 and Solaris.

About Parasoft
Parasoft is the leading provider of innovative solutions that automatically identify and prevent software errors from reoccurring in the development and QA process. Developed with Automated Error Prevention (AEP) methodologies, its award-winning, patented solutions enable software development organizations to reduce delivery delays and improve the quality, security and predictability of enterprise applications. Parasoft has more than 10,000 clients worldwide, including Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco, Disney, HP, IBM, Lehman Brothers and SBC. Founded in 1987, Parasoft is headquartered in Monrovia, CA. For more information visit: www.parasoft.com.