Abstract: The primary objective of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to use information technology to address the key goals of business today: innovation, agility, and market value. Agility in SOA is achieved by use of the principles of encapsulation, modularity, and loose coupling, which facilitates a cleaner separation of concerns. While loose coupling enables customers to rapidly reuse services in new applications, strong coherency must be maintained to achieve the primary business objectives of the application. When applications are composed of loosely coupled services that are independent (owned by different parts of the organization, based on disparate technology assumptions, and evolving on independent schedules and with diverse priorities) the coherency of the composite application can be undermined. In this paper, we examine how coherency can be created and maintained in loosely coupled applications. We examine, in this context, various techniques and design approaches, such as service management, the use of service buses, the role of industry models and semantic ontologies, and governance, to achieve and maintain coherency of composite applications using SOA.
Summary: WebSphere® Business Services Fabric provides an SOA platform to enable a new class of service-oriented business solutions. Business Services Fabric provides an integrated environment to model, assemble, deploy, manage and govern composite business services. This series of articles introduces you to WebSphere Business Services Fabric and shows you how to use it to build composite business services.
Abstract: A method and apparatus to employ a service proxy to personalize service messages by automatically supplying the interface parameters used for communications between a Service provider and its client businesses.
Abstract: A validation system is provided for validating the general structure of XML documents, such as ACORD documents, with a schema validation engine and schema. A rules profile containing the carriers rules is stored in a storage system. For efficiency, the rules engine uses a combination of a scripting language (Groovy) and a dot notation to make it easy to access elements in the document.
Abstract: A smart node is integrated with each Web service in a Web services application chain to automatically supply missing functionality, and orchestration of the processes in the application, without coordination by an orchestration engine.
Publications
Creating and maintaining coherency in loosely coupled systems
Abstract: The primary objective of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to use information technology to address the key goals of business today: innovation, agility, and market value. Agility in SOA is achieved by use of the principles of encapsulation, modularity, and loose coupling, which facilitates a cleaner separation of concerns. While loose coupling enables customers to rapidly reuse services in new applications, strong coherency must be maintained to achieve the primary business objectives of the application. When applications are composed of loosely coupled services that are independent (owned by different parts of the organization, based on disparate technology assumptions, and evolving on independent schedules and with diverse priorities) the coherency of the composite application can be undermined. In this paper, we examine how coherency can be created and maintained in loosely coupled applications. We examine, in this context, various techniques and design approaches, such as service management, the use of service buses, the role of industry models and semantic ontologies, and governance, to achieve and maintain coherency of composite applications using SOA.
Creating flexible SOA solutions using WBSF
Summary: WebSphere® Business Services Fabric provides an SOA platform to enable a new class of service-oriented business solutions. Business Services Fabric provides an integrated environment to model, assemble, deploy, manage and govern composite business services. This series of articles introduces you to WebSphere Business Services Fabric and shows you how to use it to build composite business services.
Non-intrusive Personalization of Services (US Patent #7752634, 7917626)
Abstract: A method and apparatus to employ a service proxy to personalize service messages by automatically supplying the interface parameters used for communications between a Service provider and its client businesses.
Data Validation Rules for ACORD Documents (US Patent #7747945)
Abstract: A validation system is provided for validating the general structure of XML documents, such as ACORD documents, with a schema validation engine and schema. A rules profile containing the carriers rules is stored in a storage system. For efficiency, the rules engine uses a combination of a scripting language (Groovy) and a dot notation to make it easy to access elements in the document.
Smart Nodes for Web Service Interoperability (US Patent #7490153)
Abstract: A smart node is integrated with each Web service in a Web services application chain to automatically supply missing functionality, and orchestration of the processes in the application, without coordination by an orchestration engine.