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How Service Oriented Architecture

Improves Business Flexibility
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On Demand Insurance Wants to be an On
Demand Business
ODI CIO
IBM
How do we build solutions
using the on demand
operating environment?
We use a technique
called Service Oriented
Architecture. In general
there are four steps.
Lets take a look.
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SOA Step 1 - Componentized Business Design
Business
Partner
Elements
Enterprise
Applications
Elements
Data
Elements
People
Calculate credit score
Process credit application
Place order
Check shipping status
Customer records
Billing data
Inventory data
Examples:
Identify elements of business processes
Functions implemented by applications
Data used by processes
Services provided by systems
Identify consumers of these elements
People
Other programs
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Partner
Services
Application Services Data
Services
People with
Clients
Service Providers and Consumers
Expose elements as services that can be invoked
Define clients for people to consume services
Browsers, fat clients, mobile, and others
SOA Step 2 Expose Elements of Business
Processes as Services
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What is a Service?
Service
Requester
Service
Provider
Service
A service either provides information to the service
requester, or facilitates a change to business data from one
valid and consistent state to another
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is used to
define the service
Service requesters communicate with services using
Extensible Markup Language (XML) messages
A web service is a specific type of service
A service is an application function
packaged as a reusable
component that can be used in a
business process
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WSDL Provides a Standard Interface
Service
Requester
Service
Provider
Service
Service Description (WSDL)
Servi ce
Description
(WSDL)
WSDL is an XML document which describes everything a
service requester needs to use a service
Service requester uses WSDL document to bind to the service
XML messages are passed between the requester and service
portType - what the service does (list
of operations)
message description of data used
by each operation
types data type definitions for
messages (usually xsd schemas)
binding - how the service is invoked
(e.g. SOAP/HTTP, SOAP/JMS, etc.)
port - specifies the address where the
service is located
Request (XML)
Response (XML)
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Enterprise Service Bus
Partner
Services
Application Services Data
Services
People with
Clients
Service Providers and Consumers
Enterprise Service Bus:
Connects services and service consumers regardless of
location, transport, or organizational boundary
Mediates between service requested and service provided
! Time, rate, format, location, protocol of requests/responses
SOA Step 3 Connect Services with the
Enterprise Service Bus
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Service Combining Frameworks
Information
Integration
Business
Integration
People
Integration
Enterprise Service Bus
Partner
Services
Application Services Data
Services
People with
Clients
Service Providers and Consumers
Step 4 Integrate Services Using Service
Combining Frameworks
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Service Combining Frameworks
Information
Integration
Business
Integration
People
Integration
Enterprise Service Bus
Partner
Services
Application Services Data
Services
People with
Clients
Service Providers and Consumers
WebSphere MQ
WBI Message Broker
Web Services Gateway
WebSphere Portal Server
IBM Workplace WBI Server Foundation
WebSphere Information
Integrator
Step 4 Integrate Services Using Service
Combining Frameworks
WebSphere Application Server
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IBM Rational tooling builds web services from existing
software assets as well as enterprise resources
WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration
Edition
Expose software assets as services
Expose enterprise resources as services
Created services have interfaces defined by WSDL
Service interfaces can be bound to invoking requester code
Exposing Elements of Business Processes as
Services A Deeper View
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Service Usage Pattern
Consuming a Software Component
Expose the methods in a business process as a service
An application on another system consumes the service
Example:
The methods being exposed allows you to add, inquire,
update and delete customer records
The application using this service processes insurance
policies
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Partner
Services
Application
Services
Data
Services
People with
Clients
Service Providers and Consumers
Enterprise Service Bus
Service Usage Pattern
Consuming a Software Component
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.Net C#
W2K
CICS
zOS
HTTP(S)
COMMAREA
CTG Client
.Net C# Client
Drivers
WebSphere
Application
Server V5.0
WebSphere
Edge
eNetwork
Dispatcher
IBM HTTP
Server (SSL)
TCP/IP
CICS
Transaction
Gateway
2 IBM x360 4-way Xeon 1.5GHz
or
2 IBM p660 4-way Power4 700MHz
(p630 4-way Power4 1GHz)
CICS
Transaction
Gateway
Server
IBM z900 1C3
IBM NetVista M41
2GHz 786M Ram
HTTP(S)
SOAP SOAP
W2K / AIX
Bank of Montreal: Expose CICS Transactions as
Web Services
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Connects service requesters and service providers
Provides mediation services
Types of mediation
Send and receive messages
Route messages to receiver
Map data formats between sender and receiver
Match protocols between sender and receiver
Connect Services with the Enterprise Service
Bus A Deeper View
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Service request/response via a messaging interface
Service requester and provider are not always available at the
same time
Add a message server into the enterprise service bus to
mediate between times service requester and provider are
available
Example:
Requesters sends message requesting a quote that is held in a message
queue until the quote server can receive it
Quote server places response in a message queue to hold message until
requester can receive it
Asynchronous Messaging Pattern
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Partner
Services
Application
Services
Data
Services
People with
Clients
Service Providers and Consumers
Enterprise Service Bus
A B
WebSphere MQ
Asynchronous Messaging Pattern
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Integrate Services Using Service Combining
Frameworks A Deeper View
Process choreography
Portal
Collaboration
Information integration
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A business process is initiated by a request from a client
This business process consumes multiple services
e.g. application services, partner services, data services
A service combining framework performs the choreography of
these services, calling them in the proper order, passing and
receiving the correct information
Each of the calls by the process choreographer can be
mediated by the enterprise service bus if required
Asynchronous messaging
Message transformation
Message routing
Process Choreography Pattern
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Partner
Services
Application Services Data
Services
People with
Clients
Service Providers and Consumers
Service Combining Frameworks
People
Integration
Enterprise Service Bus
WBI Server Foundation
Process Choreography Pattern
Information
Integration
Business
Integration
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Portal Pattern
User wishes to interact with multiple applications through
an integrated interface
SAP system
CICS Host system
Web application
Claims information database (DB2)
Claims payment database (SQL Server)
Claims adjustment database (DB2 Content Manager)
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Go
Customer Number
Information on History
Window Cracked Baseball
Roof Damaged Tree fell on it
Customer Update
Claim Form
Home History
Cracked Window "997
Damaged Roof "996
CICS Customer
Update
2
3 Columns
Rows
Submit A Claim
Claims Information Claims History
SAP Customer
Lookup
Claims Adjustment
Specify
Format:
Select Content:
Creating a Portal Dashboard
Claims
Cracked Window - Replaced
Damaged Roof - Repaired
Columns
Rows
Specify
Format:
Select Content:
Go
Customer Number
Information on History
Window Cracked Baseball
Roof Damaged Tree fell on it
Customer Update
Claim Form
Home History
Cracked Window "997
Damaged Roof "996
CICS Customer
Update
Columns
Rows
Submit A Claim
Claims Information
Claims History
SAP Customer
Lookup
Claims Adjustment
Specify
Format:
Select Content:
Claims
Cracked Window - Replaced
Damaged Roof - Repaired
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Go
Customer Number
Information on History
Window Cracked Baseball
Roof Damaged Tree fell on it
Customer Update
Claim Form
Home History
Cracked Window "997
Damaged Roof "996
Claims
Cracked Window - Replaced
Damaged Roof - Repaired
CICS Customer
Update
Submit A Claim
Claims Information
Claims History
SAP Customer
Lookup
Claims Adjustment
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SAP
Customer
Lookup
CICS
Customer
Update
Submit
A Claim
Claims
History
Claims
Information
Claims
Adjustment
Service Providers and Consumers
Service Combining Frameworks
People
Integration
Enterprise Service Bus
WebSphere Portal Server
Portal Pattern
Information
Integration
Business
Integration
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Information Integrator Pattern
Middleware to integrate heterogeneous data sources
A consistent view to all data
Reduces information integration cost
Example
User accesses all information with one program request
! Customer data (DB2)
! Policies (SQL server)
! Claims information (XML data)
! Claims payment (Other data sources)
Developer writes a single SQL query to access heterogeneous
data sources (DB2, SQL server, XML,)
Administrator efficiently works with multiple data sources
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Service Providers and Consumers
Service Combining Frameworks
People
Integration
Enterprise Service Bus
Information Integrator Pattern
XML Data
Other
Data
Sources
DB2
SQL
Server
Information
Integration
Business
Integration
WebSphere Information
Integrator
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Conclusion:
IBM Delivers a Full SOA Solution
Tools and adapters to expose elements of business
processes as services
Enterprise Service Bus
Powerful service combining frameworks
Process choreography
Portal
Collaboration
Information integration
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Next Steps
ODI CEO
I see your on demand operating
environment is rich in function
and implements Service
Oriented Architecture. Now
show me how it solves my
business problems.
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The Future is On Demand