Architecting Composite Applications and Services with TIBCO®

Chapter 4. Case Study: Nouveau Health Care

Objectives

One of the challenges in writing about architecture and architecture patterns is to pick examples that are rich enough to motivate the discussion and realistic enough to represent real-world challenges while at the same time being simple enough to be readily explained.

The fictional Nouveau Health Care case study was created for this purpose. Its business processes, though simplified when compared with their real-world equivalent, are still complex enough to present most of the common design challenges found in their real-world counterparts. An important aspect of reality is that the processes and their corresponding solution implementations do not operate in isolation—they interact with one ...