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BPEL 100 Success Secrets – Business Process Execution Language for Web Services- THE XML-based language for the formal specification of business processes, … protocols and SOA based integration

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Excellent introduction to BPEL – the business process execution language. A number of Web services orchestration / process tools are based on BPEL but hide the language behind a drag-and-drop GUI. To effectively use these tools, though, you have to understand the concepts that make up BPEL – scopes, partner links, correlation sets etc. This book likely provides the best introduction to these concepts. Examples are given in raw BPEL as well as using Oracle BPEL Manager and Microsoft BizTalk. There is coverage of advanced topics, such as correlation and convoys, a great introduction to BPEL best practices. In summary, if you are interested specifically in BPEL, this is likely the book you want to get.

BPEL 100 Success Secrets – Business Process Execution Language for Web Services- THE XML-based language for the formal specification of business processes, … protocols and SOA based integration

SOA Cookbook: Master SOA process architecture, modeling, and simulation in BPEL, TIBCO’s BusinessWorks, and BEA’s Weblogic Integration

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In Detail

SOA Cookbook covers process-oriented SOA. BPEL is the best-known language in this area, and this book presents numerous BPEL examples. It also studies proprietary vendor process languages such as TIBCO’s BusinessWorks and BEA’s Weblogic Integration. If you are building SOA processes in the field, chances are you are using one of the languages discussed in SOA Cookbook. The book assumes that the reader is comfortable with XML and web services.

Author Michael Havey works with SOA in the field for TIBCO (and previously for IBM, BEA, and Chordiant). SOA Cookbook is Michael’s second book. Essential Business Process Modeling, his first book, was published in 2005.

What you will learn from this book?

  • Document a process-based SOA architecture using “enhanced 4+1”, ARIS, SCA, UML, and BPMN
  • Learn by example how to separate BPM and SOA processes
  • Model choreography and orchestration in BPMN and BPEL
  • Divide a process that involves both manual and automated activities between BPM and SOA
  • Manage state in short- and long-running processes
  • Model processes intelligently using three variants of a structured “flat form” approach: event-based, state-based, and flow-based
  • Develop dynamic processes to manage the “change problem”: problems that arise when you need to change the definition of a process that has live cases in production
  • Simulate SOA processes using concepts from discrete event simulation and the Poisson process
  • Measure the complexity of SOA processes

Approach

As a cookbook, this book can be regarded as a set of gourmet recipes for SOA. Each of the eight chapters that follow the introductory chapter covers an important concept in process-based SOA and teaches techniques to build solutions based on the concept. Working examples are developed in BPEL, TIBCO’s BusinessWorks and BEA’s Weblogic Integration.

Who this book is written for?

The book is intended for hands-on SOA architects, designers, and developers who want to learn techniques in process orchestration. Many of these readers use, or will soon start using, languages such as BPEL, TIBCO’s BusinessWorks, or BEA’s Weblogic Integration in their projects.

This intermediate-level book assumes that the reader is comfortable reading XML and knows the basic concepts of web services. The book presents several BPEL and BPMN examples, but it explains specific language constructs on the fly; the reader need not have background in these languages.

SOA Cookbook: Master SOA process architecture, modeling, and simulation in BPEL, TIBCO’s BusinessWorks, and BEA’s Weblogic Integration

New Book on Service Oriented Architecture and Its Approach to Integration Published by Packt

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Packt is pleased to announce a new book, SOA Approach to Integration which shows how to define SOA integration architecture, what technologies to use, and how to best integrate existing applications with modern e-business solutions.

This book focuses on the SOA approach to integration of existing (legacy) applications and newly developed solutions, using modern technologies, particularly web services, XML, ESB, and BPEL. The book shows how to define SOA for integration, what integration patterns to use, which technologies to use, and how to best integrate existing applications with modern e-business solutions.

This book also shows how to develop web services, how to process and manage XML documents from JEE and .NET platforms, and how to use ESBs and BPEL executable business processes within SOA architecture. This book explains SOA, web services, and the Enterprise Services Bus before covering processing XML and web services on the .Net and JEE platforms in more detail.

Architects and senior developers who are responsible for setting up SOA for integration for applications within the enterprise (intra-enterprise integration) and applications across enterprises (inter-enterprise integration or B2B) will find this book extremely useful.

For more information about this book, please visit www.PacktPub.com

BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development: Ten practical real-world case studies combining business … management and web services orchestration

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Ten practical real-world case studies combining business process management and web services orchestration

  • Real-world BPEL recipes for SOA integration and Composite Application development
  • Combining business process management and web services orchestration
  • Techniques and best practices with downloadable code samples from ten real-world case studies

In Detail
Service Oriented Architecture is generating a buzz across the whole IT industry. Propelled by standards-based technologies like XML, Web Services, and SOAP, SOA is quickly moving from pilot projects to mainstream applications critical to business operations. One of the key standards accelerating the adoption of SOA is Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL).

BPEL was created to enable effective composition of web services in a service-oriented environment. In the past two years, BPEL has become the most significant standard to elevate the visibility of SOA from IT to business level. BPEL is not only commoditizing the integration market, but it is also offering organizations a whole new level of agility – ability to rapidly change applications in response to the changing business landscape. BPEL enables organizations to automate their business processes by orchestrating services within and across the firewall. It forces organizations to think in terms of services. Existing functionality is exposed as services. New applications are composed using services. Communication with external vendors and partners is through services. Services are reused across different applications. Services are, or should be, everywhere!

What you will learn from this book?

In the Packt book Business Process Execution Language for Web Services by Matjaz Juric, we learnt about the building blocks and how these technologies could be used to build a simple SOA solution. As organizations increase their SOA footprint, IT Managers, Architects, and developers are starting to realize that the impact of SOA on IT and business operations can be immense. After having gained confidence with web services, they want to take it to the next level. However, adopters are challenged with some basic questions – How do I SOA-enable my existing integration investment? Can I build flexible and agile business processes? How can I administer my SOA environment without spending a fortune? There have been various best practices defined around SOA, but to date these have been somewhat abstract and lacking a real-world basis. The IT community is looking for real-world examples; examples of how other companies are embarking on an SOA initiative and how to apply that industry learning to their own projects.

What makes this a Cookbook? After you have been exposed to the different ingredients (BPEL, WSDL, and web services), this book takes the adventure to the next level by helping you cook new recipes (SOA applications) using efficient kitchen techniques (best practices). 10 SOA practitioners have gotten together to share their SOA best practices and provide practical viewpoints to tackle many of the common problems SOA promises to solve. Their recommendations are based on projects in production; their existing projects could be your next ones. Through this process you’ll learn the techniques and gain the confidence to create and deliver the recipe that’s right for your particular situation.

Who this book is written for?

This book is aimed at architects and developers building applications in Service Oriented Architecture. The book presumes knowledge of BPEL, SOA, XML, web services, and multi-tier architectures.

BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development: Ten practical real-world case studies combining business … management and web services orchestration

WebSphere Business Integration Primer: Process Server, BPEL, SCA, and SOA

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Introductory Guide to WebSphere Business Integration from IBM

 

Using WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) technology, you can build an enterprise-wide Business Integration (BI) infrastructure that makes it easier to connect any business resources and functions, so you can adapt more quickly to the demands of customers and partners. Now there’s an introductory guide to creating standards-based process and data integration solutions with WBI. 

 

WebSphere Business Integration Primer thoroughly explains Service Component Architecture (SCA), basic business processes, and complex long-running business flows, and guides you to choose the right process integration architecture for your requirements. Next, it introduces the key components of a WBI solution and shows how to make them work together rapidly and efficiently. This book will help developers, technical professionals, or managers understand today’s key BI issues and technologies, and streamline business processes by combining BI with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

 

Coverage includes

  • Linking BI, business process management (BPM), and SOA
  • BI scenarios, architecture, patterns, and the IBM Business Object Framework
  • Business orchestration utilizing WS-BPEL and other industry standards
  • BI development with WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) and the SCA programming model
  • WebSphere Process Server (WPS): a runtime for service-oriented applications
  • Defining business maps, rules, business state machines, and human tasks
  • Managing BI services: security, auditing, and more
  • Integrating third-party and legacy systems with WebSphere adapters
  • Utilizing WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Business Monitor
  • Using WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB) to integrate services

WebSphere Business Integration Primer: Process Server, BPEL, SCA, and SOA