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

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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

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed why when building IT solutions a process-driven integration combined with an SOA approach is critical for achieving dynamism. We also discussed the core capabilities needed for a process integration approach, IBM's SOA reference architecture, and IBM's Business Process Management platform including WebSphere Process Server (WPS) and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. We saw how WPS fits in an SOA approach, how it helps deliver an SOA infrastructure to orchestrate, mediate, connect, map, and execute the underlying IT functions and systems. We also discussed the ESB as a pattern and essential considerations to make when choosing an ESB. Then we discussed how WESB complements an SOA approach, how it enables connectivity and messaging capabilities, and hence provides a smart approach to SOA. We then discussed the IBM SOA lifecycle, various activities performed in the appropriate phases, and products from IBM that help accomplish activities within phases. Finally, we discussed IBM's BPM enabled by SOA lifecycle methodology, which can be used as a practical method when building SOA-based solutions.