SOA and WS-BPEL Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Web Services, SOA, and WSBPEL Technologies
• Web Services
• Communicating via SOAP
• Binding with WSDL
• Using XML Schema Types within WSDL Definitions
• Service-Oriented Architecture
• Basic Principles of Service Orientation
• Applying SOA Principles
• SOA Compositions
• Orchestration
• Choreography
• WS-BPEL
• WS-BPEL Processes
• WSDL Definitions for Composite Services
• Tools for Designing, Deploying, and Testing Solutions Based on WS-BPEL
• Summary

• Chapter 2: SOAP Servers and Clients with PHP SOAP Extension
• Building Service Providers and Service Requestors
• Setting Up the Database
• Developing the PHP Handler Class
• Designing the WSDL Document
• Building the SOAP Server
• Building the Service Requestor
• Testing the Service
• Using XML Schemas with WSDL
• Including XML Schema Data Type Definitions in WSDL
• Importing XML Schemas into WSDL Documents
• Getting Data Types Defined in the XML Schema
• Transmitting Complex Type Data
• Exchanging Complex Data Structures with PHP SOAP Extension
• Structuring Complex Data for Sending
• Converting SOAP Messages' Payloads to XML
• Using PHP SOAP Extension Tracing Capabilities
• Dealing with Attributes
• Transforming XML Documents with XSLT
• Extending PHP SOAP Extension Predefined Classes
• Defining Parameter-Driven Operations
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Designing Data-Centric Web Services
• Which Database to Choose
• Using MySQL
• Building a Service Interacting with MySQL
• Storing XML Data in Relational Tables
• Using Oracle Database XE
• Using XML Schemas with Oracle XML DB
• XML Schema Validation Considerations
• Defining Parameter-Driven Operations on DataCentric Services
• Defining XSD Types for Parameters
• Moving Conditional Logic into the Database
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Building Web Service Applications
• Defining Parameter-Driven Operations on FineGrained Services
• Putting Info on Fine-Grained Services in a Separate XML File
• Building Fine-Grained Services
• Creating the Coarse-Grained Service
• Testing the Application
• Exposing Application Logic as a Web Service
• Sharing the Same PHP Handler Class Between Services
• Choosing the Appropriate Level of Service Granularity
• Securing Services
• Implementing Message-Level Security
• Using SOAP Message Headers
• Using WS-Security for Message-Level Security
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Composing SOA Solutions with WS-BPEL
• Getting Started with WS-BPEL
• How it Works
• The Structure of a WS-BPEL Definition
• An Example of a WS-BPEL Definition
• Using ActiveBPEL Engine
• Taking Advantage of the ActiveBPEL Open-Source Engine Project
• Your First ActiveBPEL Project
• Structure of the Business Process Archive (BPR) to be Deployed to the ActiveBPEL Engine
• Designing WSDL for the WS-BPEL Process Service
• Creating the WSDL Catalog
• Designing the WS-BPEL Process Definition
• Creating the Process Deployment Descriptor (PDD) Document
• Deploying the WS-BPEL Process Service
• Testing the WS-BPEL Process Service
• Implementing Service-Oriented Orchestrations
• Creating the WSDL Definition Describing the WS-BPEL Process
• Creating the WSDL Catalog
• Creating the WS-BPEL Business Definition Containing Conditional Logic
• Creating the PDD Document
• Deploying the WS-BPEL Process Service
• Testing the WS-BPEL Process Service
• Summary

• Chapter 6: ActiveBPEL Designer
• Getting Started with ActiveBPEL Designer
• Overview of ActiveBPEL Designer's User Interface
• Your First Project in ActiveBPEL Designer
• Creating the Project
• Adding the WSDL Definition
• Creating the WS-BPEL Process
• Creating the Deployment Descriptor
• Creating the Deployment Archive
• Deploying the WS-BPEL Service to the ActiveBPEL Server Shipped with ActiveBPEL Designer
• Testing the WS-BPEL Process Service
• Implementing Service-Oriented Orchestrations with ActiveBPEL Designer
• Creating the Project
• Adding the WSDL Describing the WS-BPEL Process
• Adding the WSDL Definitions Describing the Partner Services
• Creating the Process Definition
• Creating the Process Deployment Descriptor
• Deploying the WS-BPEL Process Service
• Testing the WS-BPEL Process Service
• Summary

• Chapter 7: WS-BPEL Process Modeling
• Concurrency, Synchronization, and Asynchronous Communication in WS-BPEL
• Parallel Processing versus Sequential Processing
• Parallel Processing in a Loop
• Asynchronous Communication
• Implementing Concurrency with the Flow Container
• Defining Partner Services
• Creating the Project
• Creating the WSDL Describing the WS-BPEL Process
• Adding Partner WSDL Definitions as Web References
• Creating the Process Definition
• Creating the Process Deployment Descriptor
• Deploying the Process Service
• Testing the Sequential Version of the WS-BPEL Process
• Replacing Sequence with Flow
• Testing the WS-BPEL Process Using a Parallel Flow to Handle Partner Services
• Implementing a Parallel Loop
• Defining the Partner Service Being Called from within the Loop
• Creating the Project
• Creating the WSDL Describing the WS-BPEL Process
• Adding WSDL Definitions as Web References
• Creating the Process Definition
• Creating the PDD Descriptor
• Deploying the WS-BPEL Process Service
• Testing the Sequential Form of the forEach Activity
• Moving to a Parallel forEach
• Testing the Parallel forEach
• Building an Asynchronous WS-BPEL Process Service
• Creating the Project
• Creating the WSDL Describing the Asynchronous WSBPEL Process
• Creating the WSDL Describing the WS-BPEL Process Calling the Asynchronous WS-BPEL Process
• Creating the Process Definition for the Calling Process
• Creating the Process Definition for the Called Process
• Creating the PDD Descriptor for the Calling Process
• Creating the PDD Descriptor for the Called Process
• Deploying the Example
• Testing the Asynchronous Example
• If Something Goes Wrong
• Summary

• Appendix A: Setting Up Your Work Environment
• Installing Apache HTTP Server
• Installing PHP
• Installing PHP on Windows
• Installing PHP on Unix-Like Systems
• Installing MySQL
• Installing MySQL on Windows
• Installing MySQL on Linux
• Installing Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)
• Installing Oracle Database XE on Windows
• Installing Oracle Database XE on Linux
• Installing Apache Tomcat 5.5
• Installing Apache Tomcat 5.5 on Windows
• Installing Apache Tomcat 5.5 on Linux
• Installing the ActiveBPEL Engine
• Installing ActiveBPEL Designer

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