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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

SOA considerations


To achieve an optimal level of flexibility when adopting an SOA-based approach, you must take into consideration key patterns, principles, and procedures. In this well-written article Increase flexibility with the Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM) by Ali Arsanjani and Kerrie Holley (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-soa-simm/), there are seven stages of SOA maturity that are described. The path to SOA must consider several typical approaches addressed in the article. SOA adoption is a gradual process. JungleSea Inc. will embark on an SOA journey, in the context of building the Sales Fulfillment Application, by integrating applications using a service-oriented integration (SOI) approach.

JungleSea Inc. hired a consulting service from a top-tier consulting firm and experts in SOA. They found through workshops, maturity assessments, and business value assessment of their current and proposed projects that an SOA approach can potentially reduce...