SOA Approach to Integration Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Integration Architecture, Principles, and Patterns
Chapter 2: Service- and Process-Oriented Architectures for Integration
Chapter 3: Best Practices for Using XML for Integration
Chapter 4: SOA and Web Services Approach for Integration
Chapter 5: BPEL and the Process-Oriented Approach to Integration
Chapter 6: Service- and Process-Oriented Approach to Integration Using Web Services
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Integration Architecture, Principles, and Patterns
  • Integration Challenges
    • Current Situation
    • Effective Information Systems
    • Replacing Existing Applications
  • Requirements and Strategies
    • Single Data Input
    • Information Access with Low Latency
  • Importance of a Centrally Managed Integration Project
    • Responsibility to Define Integration Architecture
    • Responsibility to Select Integration Infrastructure and Technologies
    • Development and Maintenance of Integration Documentation
  • Integration Architecture Steps and Approaches
    • Bottom-Up Approach
    • Top-Down Approach
    • Sound Integration Architecture Benefits
  • Types of Integration
    • Data-Level Integration
    • Application Integration
    • Business Process Integration
    • Presentation Integration
    • Business-to-Business Integration
  • Integration Infrastructure
    • Communication
    • Brokering and Routing
    • Transformation
    • Business Intelligence
    • Transactions
    • Security
    • Lifecycle
    • Naming
    • Scalability
    • Management
    • Rules
  • Integration Technologies
    • Database Access Technologies
    • Message-Oriented Middleware
    • Remote Procedure Calls
    • Transaction Processing Monitors
    • Object Request Brokers
    • Application Servers
    • Web Services
    • Enterprise Service Buses
  • The Integration Process
    • Choosing the Steps and Defining the Milestones
    • Sound Practices
      • Iterative Development
      • Incremental Development
      • Prototyping
      • Reuse
    • Integration Process Activities and Phases
  • Integration Patterns
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Service- and Process-Oriented Architectures for Integration
  • Defining Service-Oriented Architectures
    • Why SOA in the Integration Space?
      • Islands in the Enterprise IT Landscape
      • The Integration Problem
    • Custom Integration Application and Its Issues
    • Inverted View: Reusable Services, Simple Integration Processes
    • Enter SOA: A Services-Based Integration Architecture
  • Concepts and Principles of SOA
    • Paradigm Shift—from Self-Contained Applications towards "Services"
    • Service Orientation
    • Component-Based Services
      • The Internet Simplifies Remote Services
    • Consuming Services
  • Introducing SOA Architecture
    • Service Abstractions
    • Service Invocation and Service Implementation
    • Process Engines
    • Messaging Abstractions
    • Synchronous and Asynchronous Messages
    • Service Registries
    • Quality of Service
    • Communication Infrastructure
    • What is a "Bus"?

• XML and Web Services: SOA Foundation
  • Using XML in Middleware
    • Middleware Mechanics for Services
    • XML-Based Mechanism to "Invoke" Services
    • Services over the Web via SOAP
  • Web Services—Protocols for SOA
    • Technology Agnostic System-to-System Interaction
    • Service Description—Using WSDL
    • Discovering the Services—UDDI
    • Containers to Host Web Services
  • Standards Foundation
    • Application Platforms (JAVA EE) Hosting Web Services

• Using Services to Compose Business Processes
  • Simple Integration Applications
  • Simple Business Processes—Orchestrating the Services
  • Choreography—Multi-Party Business Process

• SOA Security and Transactions
  • Security Challenges in a Services Environment
  • Simple Middleware Systems Security
    • Security in Java Infrastructure
    • Microsoft.NET Security
  • Web Services Security for Loosely Coupled Services
    • Emerging Web Services Security Standards
  • Transactions in SOA
    • Web Services Transaction—A Standard

• Infrastructure Needed for SOA
  • Service Execution and Communications
    • Types of Component Services
    • Service Containers (Execution Engines)
    • Communication Infrastructure—Under the Covers
    • Communication "Bus"—At the Core
    • MOM
  • XML Backbone (XML, Transformations, and Persistence)
  • Reliability and Scalability
    • Managing a Distributed SOA Environment
  • Options for SOA Infrastructure
    • Web Services
    • Application Platforms (JAVA EE / .NET)
    • Simple Messaging-Based Custom Infrastructure
    • Integration Platforms (EAI)
    • ESB—Enterprise Service Bus

• Designing Services and Processes for Portability
  • Adoption Considerations
    • Think Services
    • Model the Business Data as XML
    • Processes in BPEL
    • New Applications—Prepare for SOA/POA
  • Design for Infrastructure (Vendor) Independence

• Transition to Process-Oriented Architectures
  • Services and Processes Coexist—But Services First
    • Process—Orchestration of Services
  • POA—Shifting the Focus to "Processes First"
  • Concepts and Principles of Process-Oriented Architectures
    • POA—Processes First. Services... Maybe!
    • POA Enables Top-down Design—Using just Processes
    • Analysts Become Programmers
    • POA Changing Software Development Roles
  • Process Standards
  • Infrastructure for Process-Oriented Architectures

• Summary

• Chapter 3: Best Practices for Using XML for Integration
  • Introduction
    • Domain-Specific XML Schemas
    • Validating XML Documents
    • Mapping Schemas
    • Choosing Processing Models
    • Fragmenting Incoming XML Documents
    • Design Recommendations
    • Default Namespace—targetNamespace or XMLSchema?
    • Localize Namespace vs. Expose Namespaces
      • Advantages of Localizing Component Namespaces within the Schema
      • Advantages of Exposing Namespaces in Instance Documents
    • Global vs. Local Declaration
      • Russian Doll and Salami Slice Designs
    • Element vs. Type
    • Zero, One, or Many Namespaces
      • Use the Heterogeneous Namespace Design
      • Use the Homogeneous Namespace Design
      • Use the Chameleon Design
  • Using XSL for Transformation
    • xsl:import and xsl:include
  • Securing XML Documents
    • XML Encryption
      • Encrypting an XML File
      • SSL versus XML Encryption
      • XML Signatures
    • Guidelines for Securing Your Services
  • XML Streaming and DOM
    • Pull Parsing versus Push Parsing
    • What is StAX?
      • StAX and Other JAXP APIs
      • Performance Considerations
    • Limit Parsing of Incoming Documents
    • Use the Appropriate API
    • Choosing Parser
    • Reduce Validation Cost
    • Referencing External Entities
    • Dynamically Generated Documents
    • Using XML Judiciously
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: SOA and Web Services Approach for Integration
  • Designing Service-Oriented Architectures
    • SOA Evolution
    • IT Evolution
    • Patterns
      • Business Patterns
      • Integration Patterns
      • Composite Patterns
      • Application Patterns
      • Runtime Patterns
      • Product Mappings
    • Guidelines
  • Designing Sound Web Services for Integration
    • Web Services Architecture
    • Web Services Benefits
      • Self-Contained
      • Self-Describing
      • Modular
      • Accessible Over the Web
      • Language, Platform, Protocol Neutral
      • Open and Standards-Based
      • Dynamic
      • Composable
    • Patterns
    • Self-Service Business Pattern
    • Extended Enterprise Business Pattern
    • Application Integration Pattern
      • Application Integration Patterns
      • Direct Connection Application Pattern
      • Broker Application Pattern
      • Serial Process Application Pattern
      • Parallel Process Application Pattern
    • Runtime Patterns
      • Nodes
      • Connectors
      • Direct Connection Runtime Pattern
      • Runtime Patterns for Broker
  • Differences between B2B and EAI Web Services
    • Interface Design
    • Use of a Service Registry
  • Writing Interoperable WSDL Definitions
    • Validating Interoperable WSDL
  • Interoperability Challenges in Web Services
    • WS-I Specifications
      • WS-I Basic Profile 1.0
      • WS-I Basic Profile 1.1
      • WS-I Basic Profile 1.2
      • WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.0
  • Guidelines for Creating Interoperable Web Services
    • Avoid using Vendor-Specific Extensions
    • Use the Latest Interoperability Tests
    • Understand Application Data Models
    • Understand Interoperability of Data Types
  • Java EE and .NET Integration using Web Services
    • Sample Integration Scenario
    • Developing the Java Web Service
      • Deploying the Service
      • WSDL for Java Web Service
      • Developing the .NET Web Service
      • Deploying the .NET Web Service
    • Developing the Test Client
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: BPEL and the Process-Oriented Approach to Integration
  • Process-Oriented Integration Architectures
  • Service Composition
    • Orchestration and Choreography
    • Complexity of Business Services
    • Identifying Business Services
    • Development Lifecycle
  • SOA and Executable Business Processes
    • Example Business Process
  • BPEL for Service Composition
    • What We Can Do with BPEL
    • Executable and Abstract Processes
    • BPEL and Other Process Languages
      • Languages for Choreography
      • Modeling Notations
  • Writing BPEL Processes
    • Process Interface
    • Partner Links
    • Partner Link Types
    • Variables
    • Handlers
      • Fault Handlers
      • Event Handlers
      • Compensation Handler
    • Scopes
    • Overview of BPEL Activities
  • Developing an Example BPEL Process
    • Services Used in the Process
      • Resource Data Service
      • Rating Service
      • Billing Service
      • Adding Partner Link Types to the Service's WSDL
    • Define a WSDL Interface for the BPEL Process
    • Writing the BPEL Process Logic
      • Process Declaration
      • Defining Partner Links
      • Declaring Variables
      • Writing the Process Definition
    • Adding a Fault Handler
    • Adding an Event Handler
    • Deploy and Run the Process
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Service- and Process-Oriented Approach to Integration Using Web Services
  • Enterprise Service Bus
    • From Just Services to an Enterprise Bus
    • ESB Architecture
      • Defining ESB
      • Middleware for Middleware Technologies
      • Modeling the Enterprise Document Flows
      • ESB Services: Built on Documents/Messages
      • ESB Infrastructure Components
      • Built on Web Services Standards
    • Service Containers—The Primary Tier of the Bus
      • Inside the Container
      • External View of Services: Documents Sent to Abstract "Endpoints"
      • JBI—A Standard Container to "host" Services
      • Communication Infrastructure
    • Bus Services—Mediation, Transformations, and Process Flows
      • Why Mediation?
      • Infrastructure Mediation
      • Intelligent Content-Based Routing
      • Transformation Services
      • ESB Processes: Extending the WS Process Model
    • Security and Transactions
      • Security Considerations in Integration Architecture
      • ESB Security—Built on WS-Security
      • Transaction Semantics for Enterprise Integration
      • Distributed Transactions and Web Services
      • Realizing Transactions in ESB
    • Reliability, Scalability, and Management
      • Reliability Concepts
      • Achieving Reliable Communication through ESB
      • High Availability in ESB—Leveraging the Messaging Platform
      • Scalability and Performance of ESB
      • Control and Management of ESB
    • Application Development Considerations
      • Integration Application Constituents
      • ESB—Application Design Approach
      • Comparing ESB with Other Technologies
      • ESB—Helps Avoid Vendor Lock-Ins
    • Extending ESB to Partners
  • Summary

• Index

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