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.
IBM s BPM platform and key products that make it up
Understand fundamentals behind Service Component Architecture, Service Data Objects, WS-BPEL, and how they relate to BPM and SOA
Business Process Choreography and mediation flow fundamentals including business rules, state machine, human tasks, and CEI
Deliver a BPM enabled by SOA solutions using WPS
WESB’s smart approach to SOA by enabling integration, connectivity, and messaging capabilities
Install and fundamentals behind working with WID including integration solution, assembly diagram, working with modules and libraries, unit test environment
Build and deploy your first module project in WID and test business process applications
Understand basic concepts of mediation flows including message filter, XSLT transformation, and service invoke primitive while building a mediation module
Architect, design, and implement an "Order Management”solution using WID, WPS, and WESB
Identify components necessary for the order management solution and map them to the IBM SOA reference architecture
Identify SOA business services, create shared libraries, and leverage existing application interfaces
Build the business process flows, business services and access services, integrate with back end applications and perform end-to-end integration tests
Integrate this business process with existing applications using various capabilities provided by WID including JDBC and File adapters, JMS imports, and Web Service imports
Explore topologies and deploy gold topology
Fundamentals behind using and customizing Business Space
Manage, monitor, secure, and administer your modules with the tools provided by WPS, WESB, and Business Space
Numerous references, tips, and pointers for advanced and related topics