Book Image

Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7

Book Image

Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7

Overview of this book

By adopting an SOA approach in Business Process Management (BPM), you can make your application flexible, reusable, and adaptable to new developments. The SOA approach also gives you the potential to lower costs (from reuse), and increase revenue (from adaptability and flexibility). However, integrating basic SOA constructs (such as Process, Business Services, and Components) and core building blocks of BPM (such as Process Modeling and Enterprise Service Bus) in a real-world application can be challenging.This book introduces basic concepts of Business Integration, SOA Fundamentals, and SOA Programming Model and implements them in numerous examples. It guides you to building an Order Management application from scratch using the principles of Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architecture and using WebSphere Process Server (WPS) and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB). The various detailed aspects, features, and capabilities of the product are conveyed through examplesWe begin with essential concepts on Business Integration, SOA Fundamentals and SOA Programming Model. Then we set up the development environment to build your first Hello Process and Hello Mediation applications.Gradually, we build an SOA-based Order Management Application. We cover important aspects and functions of WPS and WESB with numerous practical examples. We show how to analyze your application's business requirements and check if an SOA approach is appropriate for your project. Then you do a top-down decomposition of your application and identify its use cases, business processes, and services. Having built the SOA Application, we introduce you to various non-functional topics, including: Administration, Governance, Management, Monitoring, and Security. We also discuss deployment topologies for WPS and WESB, performance tuning, and recommended practices.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
WID, WPS, and WESB Tips, Tricks, and Pointers
Index

Laying out the build plan


We have done a whole bunch of things so far in this chapter to architect the Sales Fulfillment Application—use cases, system context, solution architecture diagrams, service models or service identification models, architecture and design decisions, and capabilities provided by the end application. Now we are ready to start designing and implementing the solution itself using WID, WPS, and WESB. Before we start identifying the piece meal parts that will make up the solution, let's lay out the plan for designing and implementing the solution. The following figure shows the path to design and implement the Sales Fulfillment Application. The steps, as mentioned in the figure, are very self-explanatory. We will use this as a guide as we proceed into Chapters 8, 9, and 10 and follow them diligently. As we do this in the later chapters, you will be able to understand the individual steps in detail. Later as you complete this book, we hope you can weave these steps into...