1. SOA in Action
Chapter 10
B. Ramamurthy
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2. Motivation
Different usage models for the same service: different protocols for access, different granularity, different access methods and endpoints
Different design considerations are needed
Typically multiple services are at work
Consider these: does a service need to idempotent? Is it aggregation-friendly? Is it transaction-based or compensation-based? Asynchronous or asynchronous?
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3. Topics Different application models dictate different requirements:
Web application (10.1)
EAI integration (10.2)
B2B model (10.3)
Fat client model (10.4)
Small mobile device such cellular telephone access to services (10.5)
Multi-channel access to services (10.6)
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4. Web Application General interaction pattern (fig.10-1)
Browser /web server security model: state maintained by web application (fig. 10-2)
One time transaction (OTT) pattern (fig.10-3)
While layer diagram was good for architectural model, semantics or logic for services interaction cannot be explained using the layer diagram
We will look at sequence diagram and features provided by BPEL for this.
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5. Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Classify the applications as service providers and service consumers. Pattern: service provider/ service consumer
Single sign-on, quality of service should be explicitly addressed.
Service enablement strategies: create a service encapsulating the functionality provided by an existing application.
Consider the transformation of a monolithic application into a service-oriented application.
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6. Service-enablement Monolithic application Visual part Non-Visual
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7. Service-enablement Application frontend interface!#1 Interface#2
logic
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8. Service-enablement Application frontend Application Application
interface!#1
Application
Interface#2
Observe data encapsulation
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9. Service-enablement (SCA: Services Component Architecture)
Services infrastructure (Ex: ESB)
Application frontend
Service #1
Service #2
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10. Transform Granularity
Transform fine-granular interaction among distributed components into coarse-granular interaction pattern using facades.
See fig.10.5
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11. Granularity of access Application frontend Traditional user interface
Façade #1
Façade #2
Services infrastructure
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12. EAI  SOA EAI can drive an SOA
EAI is excellent driver for service enabling applications
From business perspective EAI is introduced to simplify application infrastructure and to foster reuse.
This is good motivation for resorting to SOA
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13. Stability and Upgradeability
Service stability and upgradeability are two of the most desirable features in an EAI environment.
User and provider in different domains
Backward compatibility
Different versions are supported (see fig 10-6 and 10-7)
EAI requires repositories to ensure stability and upgradeability.
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14. Business-to-Business (B2B)
In a B2B environment a corporation offers some service to another company over the public networks.
Service consumer and provider benefit greatly from standardized protocols.
Standards such as ebXML (UN/CEFACT), and RosettaNet are examples of standardization effort.
Business process can be stateful, but services invocations can be stateless by using token identifying an interaction.
Typical characteristics: stateless, location transparency, trusted domains
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15. B2B
Stateless: enables interaction with remote customers over connections with high network latency. Much fewer constraints on the caller applications.
Location transparency: real location transparency using service repositories. Change is a location of a service need to be updated only in the registries, caller need not be aware of this.
Consider airline ticket with multiple legs of journey (Scenario is explained very nicely pp )
Service level agreements provides a mechanism for negotiation, guarantees, monitoring and enforcement of agreements. (See: web services standards WS-SLA)
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16. Fat Clients (Better: Rich Clients)
Rich Interface Applications (no need to install an .exe/xyz.war file to run an application)
Ex: Google maps, mapquest
Clients trusted by the local environment
Check-in kiosk is a fine example
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17. Rich Client Example Checkin Kiosk Luggage Scale Boarding Pass printer
Luggage tag
printer
Card Reader
Customer service
Checkin service
Ticket service
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18. Designing for smaller devices
How do you define a small device? Small footprint operating system, small screen (150X100 pixels), limited processing capability, small memory 256KB, limited data entry, connectivity to enable periodic synchronization with base and facilitate participation in an SOA.
Lightweight security: information available on an identifier embedded in the device such as …
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19. Smaller devices in an SOA
Decouple the service invocation in the device from the actual service using an adapter that resides at a gateway server.
Ex: SMS (short message service) messing instead of soap messaging until the gateway; gateway may translate into SOAP payload semantics to the actual service.
MMS (Multimedia Service)
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20. Multi-channel Applications
A multi-channel application is characterized by a functional core that can be accessed through different channels by either humans or other programs.
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21. Multi-channel applications
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22. Multi-channel application
Start with fundamental SOA: only two layers: Enterprise layer with all the application frontends for the various channels and basic functional layer (fig )
A façade can be added at intermediary layer (fig )
If every channel requires its own channel-specific processing add a process layer with one service per frontend (fig )
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23. Summary
Use scenario diagram (UML standard) to discuss semantic flows among services
Design the SOA based the application domain in which it needs to deployed.
Which of the SOA is applicable to our KJ world?
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