Enterprise:Systems:SOA-EAI

Contents 1 Navigation 2 Related categories 3 Information on EAI and SOA 4 What is EAI and how SOA can help 4.1 EAI 4.2 OSS/J 4.3 Commercial and Open Source ESB 5 Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) 5.1 IBM Websphere MQ-Series 5.2 Oracle Fusion 5.3 JMS 5.4 BizTalk vs JMS 5.5 TIBCO Rendezvous 6 Frameworks for Enterprise Architecture

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Information on EAI and SOA

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What is EAI and how SOA can help

• Enterprise Management Scenario: Managing the IT Infrastructure as a Business Service [1] (local copy)
• IBM redbook: integrating ESB in SOA [2] (local copy)
• An article bringing some SOA criticism - "Use SOAs to add real value, not complexity" [3]
  • SOA should be implemented for software reuse, not refactoring
  • SOA adds complexity by default
  • SOA-enabling an application or product on its own achieves nothing
  • Remember Isambard Brunel and his bright examples of pragmatism
• SOA overview and criticism [4] (local copy)
  • For a stable or homogeneous enterprise IT environment, SOA may not be important or cost effective to implement.
  • If an organization is not offering software functionality as services to external parties or not using external services, which require flexibility and standard-based accessibility, SOA may not be useful.
  • SOA is not desirable in case of real time requirements because SOA relies on loosely coupled asynchronous communication
• 350 pages of articles on SOA, Web Services and related standards or technologies:
• JINI - SOA for grid-computing architecture [5]
• Solving Telecom Systems Integration Problems through SOA [6] (local copy)
• CBDI Service Oriented Architecture Practice Portal - reports [7]

EAI

• EAI overview and training [8] (local copy)
• Who's who in EAI - vendors overview [9]
• J2EE vs Dot Net Two Visions for eBusiness [10] (local copy)
• Total business integration through the XML bus [11]
• Enterprise Integration patterns catalogue [12]
• Patterns and Best Practices for Enterprise Integration [13]
• HP-WebMethods Open Management Interface for EAI [14] (local copy)

OSS/J

• Service and Business Management - OSS/J [15]
• TM Forum OSS/J resources [16]

Commercial and Open Source ESB

• Fiorano ESB [17]
• Vitria ESB [18]
• The iWay Service Manager being used by Hydro One Networks as an integration hub
• Mule OPen Source ESB [19]
• Build multi-protocol, opensource,web services using Iona JAX-WS [20]

Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

• Butler Group Middleware Options [21] (local copy)
• Message Oriented Middlewares (MOM) Overview [22] (local copy)
• Basic commercial and Open Source MOM overview [23]
• Middleware Resource Center [24]
• Resources on Message Oriented Middleware [25]

IBM Websphere MQ-Series

• WebSphere MQ resources page [26]
• Application Messaging Interface [27]
• Application Programming Guide [28]

Oracle Fusion

• Oracle Fusion Middleware 10g R2 Oracle Enterprise Messaging Service [29] (local copy)

JMS

• ActiveMQ - fast open source JMS 1.1 Message Fabric used by Mule [30]
• JMS performance tuning [31]
• Best practices to improve performance in JMS [32]
• Using SOA over JMS with Websphere [33]

BizTalk vs JMS

• BizTalk Utilities Adapter for BizTalk talking JMS [34]

JMS Providers are defined within the BizTalk Utilities Adapter for Messaging MMC Snap-In. The Adapter installs a set of sample Providers for Swift MQ, EA Server, Fiorano MQ, JBoss MQ, Open JMS and Sonic MQ.

The JMS stack being used is ActiveJMS

• Biztalk Adapter for Messaging [35]
• ActiveJMS - Open Source ActiveX JMS client API (being used by the BizTalk JMS adapter) [36]

TIBCO Rendezvous

TIBCO Rendezvous RVCM is using PGM reliable multicast for reliable multipoint delivery

RV = RendezVous RVCM=RV with Certified Message delivery

• TIBCO Rendezvous - an overview
• Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) - a reliable multicast transport protocol (Talarian)
• Multicast vs TCP/IP based communication mode in EAI [37]
• TIBCO design patterns [38]
• Comparing Talarian SmartSockets & Tibco Rendezvous [39]

Frameworks for Enterprise Architecture

• The The Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA) is a methodology for the descriptive representation of systems and business processes in the enterprise, being derived from older methodologies in other engineering disciplines. The ZIFA framework has been adopted by IBM in the 1980s and is now claimed as a de facto world standard.
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF or TOGAFF) is a standard architecture development methodology and framework for information systems.
• The US Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF or FEFA) is promoted by the US Office of Management and Budget and is based on a Business Reference Model, which describes the government’s Lines of Business and its services.