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Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint

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Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint

Overview of this book

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) refers to building systems that offer applications as a set of independent services that communicate and inter-operate with each other effectively. Such applications may originate from different vendor, platform, and programming language backgrounds, making successful integration a challenging task. This book enables you to integrate application systems effectively, using the Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint, which is supported by real-world scenarios in which this Integration Blueprint has proved a success.This book will enable you to grasp all of the intricacies of the Trivadis Architecture Blueprint, including detailed descriptions of each layer and component. It is a detailed theoretical guide that shows you how to implement your own integration architectures in practice, using the Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint. The main focus is on explaining and visualizing the blueprint, including comprehensive descriptions of all of its layers and components. It also covers the more basic features of integration concepts for less experienced specialists, as well as shedding light on the future of integration technologies, such as XTP and Grid Computing. You will learn about EII and EAI, OGSi, as well as base technologies related to the implementation of solutions based on the Blueprint, such as JCA, JBI, SCA and SDO.The book begins by covering fundamental integration for those less familiar with the concepts and terminology, and then dives deep into explaining the different architecture variants and the future of integration technologies. Base technologies like JCA and SCA will be explored along the way, and the structure of the Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint will be described in detail, as will the intricacies of each component and layer. Other content includes discovering and comparing traditional and modern SOA driven integration solutions, implementing transaction strategies and process modeling, and getting to grips with EDA developments in SOA. Finally, the book considers how to map software from vendors like Oracle and IBM to the blueprint in order to compare the solutions, and ultimately integrate your own projects successfully.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Service-Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Preface
References

Notation and visualization


Notation and visualization describes a notation, which makes it easy to visualize example scenarios in the blueprint. This section forms the foundation for the next chapter of this book, which uses individual scenarios to show how the fundamental patterns from Chapter 1 can be implemented with the integration blueprint.

Representing the scenarios and the notation used

Dynamic aspects are represented in scenarios, as shown in the following example:

Scenarios are read from top to bottom. They start in the top-right corner with an information source system. The target system of the integration process, or of an individual step, is in the bottom-right corner. The valid notation elements are shown in the following diagram:

In the image above, a .NET application sends a web service call through SOAP using one-way call semantics, which means that it does not expect a reply. The query passes through an SOAP adapter and causes an ESB service to start, which receives the...