1. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Manfred R. Koethe Industrial & Embedded Systems Architect IONA Technologies Applied Research Group manfred.koethe@iona.com Towards Total Business Integration: The XMLbus

2. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Total Business Integration Required for: Integrated electronic business scenarios (B2B, B2C, A2B,…) Building virtual and distributed enterprises Principal Problems: Information exchange Process integration  Common infrastructure

3. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Interaction between Partners In many cases, a common runtime infrastructure does not exist (e.g. CORBA to CORBA via IIOP) Solution: Introduction of portals who act as information gateways Using self-describing message formats

4. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Example: Virtual Enterprise ACB = Portal

5. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Example: Virtual Enterprise ACB = Portal Information

6. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Example: Virtual Enterprise ACB = Portal Processes

7. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Interaction Technology (today) Message technology –EDI, EDIFACT –Message Queues RPC technology –DCE –CORBA Web technology –XML –SOAP

8. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Interaction Technology (future) Transparent multi-protocol communication –Intra-enterprise support tightly coupled - IIOP loosely coupled asynchronous - JMS loosely coupled synchronous - HTTP/SOAP –Inter-enterprise support loosely coupled synchronous - HTTP/SOAP Service definition language (SDL) UDDI for Discovery/Registration

9. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ IONA XMLbus Multi-protocol communication Common agreement through metadata CORBA-like invocation architecture Plus iPortal Integration Server providing: –Routing between different protocol systems –Message transformation & adapter –Process management and control –System / process definition repositories

10. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ XMLbus: Member of the ART Product Family Orbix 2000 iPortal Application Server XMLbus Adaptive Runtime Technology (ART) CORBA Personality J2EE Personality XML/SOAP Personality

11. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ ART Architecture ART microkernel: common functionality (invocation, marshaling, exceptions, …) Additional functionality through plug-ins (transactions, security, …) Further functionality through personalities: –Orbix 2000: CORBA, IIOP –Application Server: J2EE, EJB –XMLbus: XML/SOAP, SDL, UDDI, PE All personalities work transparently together

12. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Integrated Application Local Transforms Local Data Model Adapter/ connector Process Automation Engine Business Process Defs Translation/ Aggregator EDM Integrated Application Local Transforms Local Data Model Integrated Application Local Transforms Local Data Model Integrated Application Local Transforms Local Data Model Integrated Application Local Transforms Local Data Model Portal Server XMLbus Messaging ADMV -- Application Data Model Views EDM -- Enterprise Data Model iPortal Integration Server XMLbus Scenario: Detailed View

13. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Service Requestor Model Client IS Interface IDL JMS SOAP XML message management Message transports UDDI xface Service request creation Service discovery and interface specs Adapter Networking Environment Connector

14. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Integrated Application Service Provider Model IS Interface IDL JMS SOAP XML message management Message transports UDDI xface Service request processing Service registration with interface specs Application Adapter Networking Environment Connector

15. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ Summary Total Business Integration requires a multi-protocol platform plus process management capabilities CORBA provides powerful high-level services XML Technology provides maximum interaction flexibility Merging both provides best Platform

16. © Copyright IONA Technologies 2000, 2001 The Enterprise Portal Company™ XMLbus UDDI repository WEB SERVICE COM CORBAJ2EE RPC synchronousasynchronous channels messages topicsqueues encryption compression LDAP repository XMLbus connectors XMLbus: High level view JMS XMSG SOAP1.1