1. Using OpenSource MuleESB And QXtend To Build Robust SOA Solutions
Gary Yang, Roundview Technologies

2. QXtend & MuleESB About Gary Yang And Roundview Technologies
Have been a QAD consultant / solution architect since 1997
Started own consulting business in 2010
Pioneer in QXtend integration framework implementations with the first successful project in QXtend and a number of large scale projects, such as Eaton, Visteon, Avery Dennison, Nexteer, Tower, Freudenburg-NOK, Harris, Physio-Control (Medtronic), Superior Industries, A. O. Smith, Excel Industries, Sugar Foods
Specialize in advanced / new QAD technologies, .Net UI, CSS, Enterprise Financials, Performance Tuning, Non-Intrusive Customizations
Have team of consultants in US and China available globally

3. QXtend & MuleESB Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
SOA is a business operations strategy for leveraging information to meet the enterprise’s objectives and deliver business capacity
SOA provides a set of principles of governing concepts used during phases of system development and integration
With loose coupling of services, SOA fulfils intra and inter-enterprise services reuse and process interoperability
SOA will automate business functions and deliver solutions cheaper, better and faster

4. QXtend & MuleESB
*From QAD QXtend Training Guide

5. QXtend & MuleESB QXtend Inbound
Supports versions eB through QAD 2012EE and SE
Receive QDocs via Web Service and process QDocs by a pool of sessions (multi threaded)
Supports both standard and custom QDocs
Security checking
QAD Enterprise Applications authentication
XML message validation
alerts
Pre/post-processing available for added functionality
Query Service (in conjunction with QXO) allows real time query into QAD Enterprise Applications
Service Interface for maximum flexibility

6. Enterprise Interfaces
QXtend & MuleESB
QXtend Inbound (QXI)
Enterprise Interfaces
QXtend
Inbound
QAD App
QXtend Outbound
QDoc
QAD App
QAD EA
SOAP (XML)
Over HTTP
3rd Party Programs

7. QXtend & MuleESB QXtend Inbound vs. CIM
CIM Has Been Used Very Often In Integration Solutions, But…
Sequence sensitive
Easy to break
Only works with character interface
Difficult response tracking / exception handling
Difficult to work across servers / databases / domains
Maintenance programs with UI triggers (wrappers, ICT, TailorPro) will fail
End of life approach
QXtend Is The Answer To The Problems With CIM

8. QXtend & MuleESB Query Service And Service Interface (SI)
Allow the data retrieval from QAD via the Web Service
Easy to build for conventional queries
Flexible SI for more complex logic such as best pricing or BOM (recursive algorithm)
Si can also be used to handle high volume transactions where UI API does not perform well enough

9. QXtend & MuleESB QXtend Outbound Provides outbound QAD integration
Event-based publish subscribe model
Direct Data Publishing model (DDP)
Publishes QDocs or other XML documents
Delivers to subscriber via web-service or file
Real time or batched
Built-in alerts

10. QXtend Case Study QAD Bank Interfaces MES BOM Shipping Info
For Customs (2TS)
(SRM) Spend
Management
QAD .Net UI Or Batch Initiates
Messaging (Event Or DDP)

11. QXtend & MuleESB Shared Service Model QXO UI Source Application
Subscriber
QDocs
MFG/PRO #1
QXO
Server
MFG/PRO #1
(via QXI)
Adapter
MFG/PRO #2
(via QXI)
MFG/PRO #2
Adapter
MFG/PRO #3
(via QXI)
MFG/PRO #3
Adapter
JCAPS (EAI)

12. QXtend & MuleESB Solutions We Built With QXtend
Inbound And Outbound Third Party Software Integrations
Data Replications
Master Data
Transactional Data
QAD Customizations – Turn QAD Modules Into Objects
QAD Data Load / Conversion Utilities
Web Based Solution Integrations
From QAD eB through 2012 EE

13. QXtend & MuleESB
Selected List Of Customers We Helped With QXtend Solutions

14. QXtend & MuleESB The Need For An Efficient Messaging Middleware
QXtend is a point-to-point solution if connected directly with the client
Cannot handle asynchronous processing
Difficult to manage messaging exceptions, retries, and notifications
No visibility of the processing by business
No guaranteed delivery
Difficult to manage large number of interfaces

15. QXtend & MuleESB
*From QAD QXtend Training Guide

16. QXtend & MuleESB Choices Of Messaging Middleware
Oracle Fusion / WebMethod
IBM WebSphere MQ
Sonic ESB
Sun (Oracle) JCAPS
Microsoft BizTalk
Open Source Solutions

17. QXtend & MuleESB No. 1 Open Source ESB Solution - MuleESB
Free Base ESB Product
Commercial Strength
Graphical Workflow Design
Mule Studio For IDE
Scalable, Reliable and Extensible

18. QXtend & MuleESB
Using MuleESB In QXtend Centric Architecture

19. QXtend & MuleESB
QXtend Outbound Flow

20. QXtend & MuleESB
QXtend Inbound Flow: Synchronous

21. QXtend & MuleESB
QXtend Inbound Flow: Asynchronous

22. QXtend & MuleESB Portal For Business Visibility – The Key To Success
Remove The Need For IT To Be In The Middle Of Daily Data Issue Resolution
Empower Business With The Tools They Need
Provide Visibility To The Messaging Status And Cause Of Failures
Provide business with reprocessing capabilities in certain situations
Have Used Similar Approaches At Visteon, Nexteer, Lang-Mekra And They Were All Well Received

23. QXtend & MuleESB

24. QXtend & MuleESB

25. QXtend & MuleESB Conclusions
MuleESB is an affordable middleware solution for customers need more robust integration solution
Business Portal provides great visibility and issue resolution tools for business to take control of the integration process

26. Gary Yang At gary.yang@roundviewtech.com / LinkedIn
QXtend & MuleESB
Questions?
Gary Yang At / LinkedIn