Oracle Modernization Solutions Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Legacy Modernization
Chapter 2: Overview of SOA Integration
Chapter 3: SOA Integration—Functional View, Implementation, and Architecture
Chapter 4: SOA Integraton—Scenario in Detail
Chapter 5: Overview of Re-architecturing
Chapter 6: Re-Architecture—Functional View, Implementation, and Architecture
Chapter 7: Batch Systems Re-architecture Technical Deep Dive
Chapter 8: Online Systems Re-architecture Technical Deep Dive
Chapter 9: Re-Architecture—Scenario in Detail
Chapter 10: Introduction to Re-Host based Modernization Using Tuxedo
Chapter 11: Legacy Modernization—The Future
Appendix A: Technology Glossary
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Legacy Modernization
  • What We Won't Cover
    • Methodology and Estimation
    • The Modernization Marketplace and Why Modernize
    • Deep Dive on Approaches
  • Overview of the Modernization Options
    • Legacy Understanding
      • Application Portfolio Analysis (APA)
    • Re-Architecturing
    • SOA Integration
    • Platform Migration
      • Automated Migration
      • Re-Hosting
    • Data Modernization
      • Legacy Adapters
    • Replacement
  • Business Value—What Really Matters?
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Overview of SOA Integration
  • Integrating SOA into a Legacy Framework
  • Drivers for SOA Integration
    • Considerations for SOA Enablement
  • Where to Begin—a Word on Application Discovery
    • Assessment Process: Bringing it together
      • Summary

• Chapter 3: SOA Integration—Functional View, Implementation, and Architecture
  • SOA Integration: Functional View
  • SOA Integration: Technical View
    • User Interface
    • Legacy Service Bus (LSB) and Application Server
    • Legacy Services Engine (LSE)
      • LSE Components
      • Optional LSE Components
      • LSE Development
      • LSE Implementation/Deployment
    • Other Technical and Business Aspects
      • Scalability
      • Performance
      • Failover
      • Transaction Processing
      • Governance
      • Human Factors
      • Agility and Adaptability of Architecture
      • Host Support
  • SOA Integration
    • Implementation Options
      • Roll My Own
      • Buy a Bunch of Products and become an Integrator
      • One Pre-Integrated Stack
      • Implementation Approach
    • Phases in the Implementation Cycle
      • Understanding the Business Drivers
      • Determine Business Processes to Expose
      • Install/Configure the Software
      • Expose Legacy Artifacts
      • Integrate Services into the application server
      • Security and Governance
      • Performance and Scalability
      • Production Rollout
      • Monitor Usage and Refine
    • SOA Integration—Top Four Scenarios and Oracle Solutions
      • Oracle Products Included in the Solution
      • Oracle Products Not Included in the Solution
    • Scenario One—Enterprise Information Integration
      • Scenario One Summary
      • Scenario Two—Web Enablement
      • Scenario: Two Summary
    • Scenario Three—Report Off-Load Using Data Migration
    • Scenario Four: End-to-End SOA
      • Scenario Four: Summary
  • SOA Integration—Final Product Summary
  • IBM and Legacy SOA Integration
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: SOA Integraton—Scenario in Detail
  • Oracle Software Required
  • UML and Database Diagrams
    • Deployment Diagram
    • Use Case Diagram
    • Activity Diagram
    • Sequence Diagram
    • Data Model Diagram
  • Which Legacy Artifacts Should I Expose?—Using the Relativity Product Set
    • Application Layers—Understanding Relativity Terminology
    • Understanding an Artifact's Place in the Architecture
      • Vertical Slices
      • Horizontal Slices
    • Understanding Anomalies
      • Client Programs with Data Access
      • Calling Client Programs
      • Calling Transitional Programs
      • Impure Service Programs
    • Other Anomalies that Need Remedial Action
      • Data Validation Problem
      • The Problem of Transient or Temporary Data Queues
    • Finding the Service Functionality—Relativity SOA Analyzer Product
      • Starting from Screens
      • Looking for Special Program Constructs
    • The Case of Mixed Programs—Program 'Slicing'
    • Determining the Data Interface
    • Summary Legacy Artifact Discovery Using Relativity
  • Exposing the Legacy VSAM File Data Access
    • Connecting to Oracle Connect on Mainframe and Setting Connection Properties
    • Oracle Connect Data Source
    • Oracle Connect Adapter
  • Development Using Oracle JDeveloper
    • Prework
    • Application Modules
      • Presentation-Tier/User Interface—HTML Page
    • Legacy Web Service—VSAM Adapter Service
    • Two-Phase Commit
    • Oracle Database Persistence
  • Deploying to the Oracle Application Server
    • Configuring Oracle Application Server for the Legacy Adapter
    • Configuring Oracle Application Server Oracle Database Connection
    • Deploying to Oracle Application Server Using JDeveloper
  • Running the Example
    • Running the application
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Overview of Re-architecturing
  • What is Re-Architecture?

• Drivers and Considerations for Re-Architecture
• How IBM Views Re-Architecture
• Advanced Development Tools
• Re-Architecture versus Re-Host
• Re-Architect Deep Dive
• Pros and Cons

• Summary

• Chapter 6: Re-Architecture—Functional View, Implementation, and Architecture
  • Technical Advantages of Re-Architecture
    • Application Maintenance
    • Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
    • Architected for the Internet
    • Availability
    • Greater Software Options
    • On Demand Reporting
    • Security
  • Overcoming Barriers to Change
    • Custom Integration Applications and Utilities
    • Custom Workflow
    • Custom ETL
    • Undisciplined Development
  • Decoupling the Application-Tiers
    • Presentation-Tier
    • Data Access
  • Re-Architecture is Happening
  • Re-architecture—Functional View
    • A Technical Perspective of the Functional View
    • Other Components of the Functional Infrastructure
    • Re-architecture—Optional Software Components
  • Implementation Process: Common Attributes, Approach for Batch, and Online Processes
    • Top Three Re-Architecture Approaches
      • Three "Iterative-Phased" Approaches (IPA)
    • Re-archtecture Modernization Life Cycle
      • Life-Cycle Caveats
    • Re-Architecture Phases
      • Discovery/Recovery
      • Design Target Architecture
      • Install and Configure Oracle Software and Hardware
      • Model Target Application
      • Development Iterations
      • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
      • Performance Scalability
      • Production Roll out
      • Running in Parallel
      • Unplug the Legacy Application
    • Using a Modernization Factory for Re-Architecture Implementation
  • Final Architecture—Common Oracle Products for Batch and Online
  • Hardware, Operating System, and IBM
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Batch Systems Re-architecture Technical Deep Dive
  • Historical Reasons for Batch
  • Requirements of a Batch System
    • Top Five Batch Patterns
      • Multi Record Type Files—Pure Batch File Processing
      • Transaction Processing—Pure Autonomous Transactions
      • Administrative Batch—Backup, Archiving
      • Reporting—'Green Bar', Exception Handling, Error Handling
      • Third-Party Interfaces—Internal and External Information Integration
  • Technical View
    • Optional Products
    • Job Scheduler and BPEL Compared
  • Implementation Process
  • Recovery/Discovery Approaches
    • Methodology
      • Best practices
      • Tooling
    • Re-Design/Re-Factoring Approaches
      • The Top-Down Approach
      • The Bottom-up Approach
      • The Hybrid Approach
    • Repositories
      • Relativity Repository
      • Scheduler Repository
      • OWB Repository
      • ADF/OFM Repositories
    • Re-Design/Re-Factoring for each Legacy Artifact Group
      • Green Bar Reports
      • Job Scheduler—UML Process Flow
      • Business Flows
      • COBOL Business Rules
      • COBOL Data Access Logic
      • Database and database schema
      • Target Generation
    • Oracle Implementation Tools and Source to Target Mapping
      • Summary of Tools and Frameworks
      • Source to Target Artifact Mapping
  • Final Oracle Batch Architecture
    • Scenario Description
      • New Batch Design Pattern(s) in Oracle
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Online Systems Re-architecture Technical Deep Dive
  • History and Evolution of Online Systems
  • History of SOA and SaaS
  • Top Five Online Patterns
    • COBOL/CICS Applications Accessing VSAM and DB2 Databases
      • COBOL and CICS
      • DB2
      • VSAM
      • IMS/DC and IMS/TM
    • COBOL, CICS, Assembler Applications Talking to Datacom or IDMS Database
    • PL/I and CICS Applications Making Use of VSAM and DB2 as Data Store
    • NATURAL and COBOL Applications Accessing an ADABAS Database
  • Technical View
    • Infrastructure Unique to Re-architecture
      • Single Management Tool
      • Single Security Model
    • Development Tools
    • Metadata Repositories
      • Enterprise Information Integration (EII)
      • Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
    • Transactions
    • Infrastructure Not Required for Legacy SOA Integration
      • UI Navigation
      • Java EE Applications (EJB, Java, POJO, JSP, Servlets, JSF)
      • Relational Database
      • Grid Infrastructure (Grid Computing)
      • Backup and Recovery
    • Technologies Not Necessary for Legacy SOA Integration
      • Business Rules
      • Data and Business Services
    • Technical View Infrastructure Components
      • Capacity Planning Tools
      • Application Development Tools
      • Testing Tools
      • Tape Management
      • Human Error Recovery
      • Network Architecture/Protocol
  • Implementation Process—Online Systems
    • Presentation/User Interface
      • Recovery/Discovery
    • UI Navigation
      • Recovery/Discovery
      • Re-Design/ Re-Factor
  • Oracle Implementation Tools and Source to Target Mapping
    • Summary of Tools and Frameworks
    • Development Life Cycle Support Tools
    • Source to Target Artifact Mapping
  • Final Oracle On-line Architecture
    • Scenario Details
    • New Online Design Pattern in Oracle
      • Presentation
      • UI Navigation
      • Application Server
      • Information and Business Services
      • Relational Database
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Re-Architecture—Scenario in Detail
  • Oracle Software Required
  • UML and Screen Flow Diagrams
  • Source Application
  • Oracle Target Architecture
  • Application Mining Using Relativity
    • Mining the User Interface and Navigation-Tiers
      • Capturing the Legacy User Interface
      • Legacy User Interface Discovery
      • Screen Navigation Discovery
      • Forward Engineering
    • Mining Business Rules
      • Prerequisites
      • Identifying the Business Rules
      • Using Pattern Search
      • Searching Validation Rules
      • Using Backward Auto-Detection
      • Putting it Together
  • Forward Engineering into Oracle and Java EE
  • Producing the Target User Interface and Navigation
  • Running the Presentation-Tier Mock-up in Oracle Application Server
    • Deploying to the Oracle Application Server
    • Running the Application

• Producing the Target Business Rules
  • Creating the Rules Repository and Dictionary
  • Creating Ruleset
  • Java Fact—Adding the Java Fact Class to the Rules Author
  • Adding the Rule
    • Calling the Business Rules from Java EE and BPEL
    • Automatic Business Rules Generation Using Java Code

• Data Migration—A Quick, Easy, and a Cost-Effective Approach
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Introduction to Re-Host based Modernization Using Tuxedo
  • Re-Hosting Based Modernization
  • Critical Success Factors in Mainframe Re-hosting
    • Preserving Application Logic and Data
    • Online Transaction Processing Environment
    • User Interface Migration
    • Workload Monitoring and Management
    • Batch Jobs
  • Files and Databases
    • Mainframe DB2
    • IMS
    • VSAM
  • Meeting Performance and Other QoS Requirements
  • Phased Migration and Mainframe Integration
  • SOA Enabling Re-hosted Applications
  • Further Re-architecture of Re-hosted Applications
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Legacy Modernization—The Future
  • Green Computing
  • Standards Organizations
    • Object Modeling Group (OMG)
    • WC3
  • Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
    • Challenges with the Traditional Approach
    • The MDA/MDM Approach
  • Cloud Computing
  • Grid Computing
    • Virtualization
    • Application Fabrics

• Extreme Processing
• Summary

• Appendix A: Technology Glossary
  • Common Legacy Acronyms
  • PCI Security Standards

• Index

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