Patterns: Extended Enterprise SOA and Web Services

xiv Patterns: Extended Enterprise SOA and Web Services

The team that wrote this redbook

This redbook was produced by a team of specialists from around the world

working at the International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center.

IBM’s SOA announcements:

In September 2005, IBM announced two products intended to be the primary

solution for building ESBs:

򐂰 WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6

Delivers an ESB with Web services connectivity and data transformation.

򐂰 WebSphere Message Broker V6

Delivers an advanced ESB with universal connectivity and data

transformation.

At the time this redbook was written, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus was

not generally available. In lieu of this product, the service integration bus of

WebSphere Application Server V6 is used in the redbook scenario

implementations to build ESB solutions.

For more information about IBM’s ESB strategy see:

http://www.ibm.com/software/info1/websphere/index.jsp?tab=landings/esb

IBM also announced WebSphere Process Server V6, as a runtime for SOA

business processes. This product will ultimately replace WebSphere Business

Integration Server Foundation V5.1. WebSphere Process Server was not

generally available at the time this redbook was written, so this redbook uses

WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1 for all scenarios

requiring a business process engine.

Preface xv

Figure 0-1 Redbook team (left to right): Martin, Chidu, Pãl, Wendy, Mr. David, Mandeep, Hong, and Jake

Martin Keen is a Senior IT Specialist at the ITSO, Raleigh Center. He writes

extensively about WebSphere products, SOA, and Patterns for e-business. He

also teaches IBM classes worldwide about WebSphere, SOA, and business

process management. Before joining the ITSO, Martin worked in the EMEA

WebSphere Lab Services team in Hursley, UK. Martin holds a bachelor’s degree

in Computer Studies from Southampton Institute of Higher Education, in the

United Kingdom.

Hong Hua Chin is an Advisory IT Specialist for IBM Software Group,

ASEAN/South-Asia. He has five years of experience in J2EE™ and middleware

technologies including WebSphere and DB2®. He holds a degree in Computer

and Information Sciences from the National University of Singapore. He focuses

on technical selling of WebSphere Business Integration products. He has written,

presented and taught extensively on enterprise architecture, service-oriented

architecture, open computing standards such as Web services, and integration

best practices.

Chidambaram Ganapathi is an Associate IT Architect with IBM Global Services

India. He has over seven years experience in the IT Industry architecting and

delivering e-business solutions for airline, telecommunications and banking

intustries. He has also worked on e-commerce applications. He specializes in

building industry-specific frameworks that helps customers in rapid application

development. His current areas of interest include service-oriented architecture,

component-based architecture and autonomic computing.

David Ghazaleh is a Software Engineer with IBM in Raleigh, North Carolina,

U.S. He has 19 years of experience in the Computer Science industry. His areas

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of expertise include System Software Development, System Test Automation,

J2EE and Relational Database Management Systems. He is a Sun™ Java™ 2

Certified Programmer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from

Catholic University of Petropolis, Brazil.

Pål Krogdahl is a Senior IT Architect and Method Exponent with the IBM Nordic

Financial Services Sector. He has been working for IBM since 1998 in various

areas such as software development, technical pre-sales consulting, and solution

architecture. His areas of expertise are in distributed computing, middleware, and

Application Services Architecture, with focus on Enterprise Application

Integration (EAI) and SOA.

Wendy Neave is a Certified Senior IT Specialist in IBM Global Services in

Australia. She has 16 years of experience in application design and

development. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Environmental Science) and

an Associate Diploma in Computing. She is also a Sun Certified Programmer for

Java™ 2. Her areas of expertise include object-oriented analysis, design and

development, Java, and WebSphere. Wendy has previously contributed to the

IBM Redbooks™ Patterns: Direct Connections for Intra- and Inter-enterprise and

BPEL4WS Business Processes with WebSphere Business Integration.

Mandeep Sahni is an IT Specialist in IBM Global Services, Australia. He has

over 5 years of experience in IT. He holds a Masters degree in Information

Technology from Swinburne University of Technology, Melboune. His areas of

expertise include J2EE, WebSphere, Web Services, WebSphere Business

Integration Server Foundation, WS-BPEL and other Web technologies.

Jacob Thorwart is a Co-op IT Specialist at the IBM ITSO Center in Raleigh,

North Carolina. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in

Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. His

interests include systems integration and Web applications.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:

Jonathan Adams and Paul Verschueren

Patterns for e-business leadership and architecture, IBM UK

Lee Gavin,

Edward Oguejiofor

International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center

Bob O’Hanlon

IBM Web Services Test Team, Hursley, UK