April 24, SOA redefined: Simple. Open. Affordable.

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1 SOA redefined: Simple. Open. Affordable. April 24,

2 Executive summary The term Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been described in various ways throughout the IT industry. Since 2001, however, widely acknowledged standards such as Java EE and web services have enabled a new level of interoperability and SOAs. While many vendors have announced SOA initiatives and platforms, most implementations are dependent upon expensive, closed source platforms. And while there are a range of open source projects focused on the piece parts of SOA, nothing exists to ensure these parts interoperate within a cohesive whole. Red Hat directly addresses these issues with JBoss Enterprise Middleware, the open source platform for SOA. Red Hat redefines SOA to be simple, open, and affordable. JBoss Enterprise Middleware delivers the platforms and frameworks to simplify the development and deployment of SOA and Web 2.0 applications. JBoss delivers its value through open source products that implement open standards such as the Java EE and web services standards. Finally, a JBoss subscription delivers a high value SOA development and deployment experience that is affordable. The JBoss.org open source model delivers innovative technology that Red Hat packages into JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platforms and Frameworks as an affordable, developer-friendly, and cohesive SOA foundation. JBoss Enterprise Middleware makes it practical and simple to launch SOA projects that prove their value to the business, without the large financial commitments required to procure expensive, proprietary products. The open source platform for SOA delivers lower costs and increased flexibility. The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is used to host JEE web services and is a key platform for interoperability in a growing number of SOA deployments. The JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and JBoss jbpm currently support SOA applications requiring a unified application user interface that can deliver process-driven business value. By incorporating JBoss Rules, JBoss Enterprise Middleware enables dynamic processing and intelligent routing within business processes, based on service level agreements or other business rules. The SOA capabilities of JBoss Enterprise Middleware continue to be enhanced with the development of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform integrates the JBoss. org Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) project with JBoss jbpm, JBoss Rules, and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, delivering a complete SOA integration and business process automation platform that will be available later in The technical value of JBoss Enterprise Middleware as an SOA platform is amplified by the business power of the Red Hat partner ecosystem. Through partnerships with HP and Unisys, who provide business and SOA services leveraging JBoss Enterprise Middleware, collaboration with technology partners such as AmberPoint and SOA Software, and an alliance focused on interoperability with Microsoft, JBoss offers customers flexibility and choice. Until now, enterprises looking to implement and realize the benefits of SOA have had to choose between pricey, monolithic, proprietary platforms and an assortment of open, blended, or private source components cobbled together. In contrast, JBoss Enterprise Middleware delivers the only cohesive suite of market-leading open source middleware platforms and frameworks that can be used to build and deploy applications, business processes, and web services in an SOA.

3 Customer requirements and drivers for SOA Enterprise customers recognize that there s a better way to architect IT infrastructure and applications. Today, most enterprises experience friction in their business processes. They also experience friction and delay in implementing IT changes to support new improvements to business processes. Figure 1: CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS - SPEED AND FLEXIBILITY TODAY Business Process Friction New supplier relationship Re-architect business process Implement process randomly IT application and infrastructure change TIME Business objective DESIRED Business Process Agility New supplier relationship Leverage supplier on-ramp process Integrate supplier info SOA TIME Business objective TIME SAVED Change events, such as adding a new supplier, drive business process changes, as seen in Figure 1. In a business with significant business process friction from older and undocumented processes, business processes may need significant redesigning to support new supplier relationships. The business process changes will force manual accommodation to integrate the new supplier, while IT works on application and infrastructure changes. Finally, at the end of this chain of events, a new business objective may (or may not) be met, for example, smoothly integrating a new supplier into an enterprise supply chain. Typically, there are time lags and delays at each step along the way to achieve a business objective. These lags and delays result in lower productivity and business process friction. With SOA and updated business processes that are documented and well-understood, a business is more agile and more able to respond to new suppliers, as shown in the second time line in Figure 1. A business that leverages SOA in key processes will speed both the process and IT infrastructure, dramatically increasing the speed of integrating a new supplier into the supply chain.

4 The SOA solution Enterprises are looking to eliminate delay and business process friction. SOA makes services flexible and reusable, able to be reconfigured and augmented more swiftly than traditional applications, accelerating time-to-business objective and improving business agility. Achieving this business agility is a key tenet of improved competitiveness. Enterprises are looking to SOA to maximize return by reducing complexity and cost of change. SOA can mitigate the risk of technological and business change because SOA platforms offer standards-based services that can be reused. SOA increases business agility and responsiveness by increasing reuse of components and services, reducing new code creation and associated costs. Finally, enterprises looking to improve business performance, including customer satisfaction and improved value chain execution, will experience improvement in both areas. SOA is an approach for building distributed systems that deliver application functionality as loosely-coupled services. SOA provides a standard way to represent and interact with application functionality by leveraging open standards. This is critical to improve interoperability and integration across an enterprise and value chain. Standards also reduce business process friction by enabling the reuse of services. Developers can create new applications from existing components more quickly than building functionality variations from scratch. SOA allows the developer to focus on application assembly, speeding time to implementation. SOA changes IT and vendor focus Traditional application development favors monolithic architecture and structure. These applications focus on functional automation and were designed to last. Cost reduction remains the primary motivator of this style of application development. Traditional application development drives long development cycles and is code-oriented. These long development cycles are partly due the difficulties in reusing tightly-coupled functionality in this development paradigm. Figure 2 highlights key features of traditional application architecture. Monolithic applications embed business logic that may be better deployed as reusable services. This is one of the reasons why IT organizations with traditional application architectures cannot respond to business change rapidly. In this example, when tax laws change, IT is forced to locate and change the business logic in many places. This results in high maintenance costs as well as increased risk of error, due to implementation differences between the tax calculation routines. Also, the potential to miss some of the tax routine implementations for a change event exist, adding risk of error to the traditional application deployment.

5 Figure 2: Traditional application architecture IT and vendor focus Figure 3 illustrates services deployment within an SOA that can be reused by multiple applications and business processes. SOAs are comprised of application and business process assemblies of business functionality. So, SOA presents a loosely-coupled, agile, and adaptive infrastructure and application architecture. SOAs are built using interactive and iterative development processes. Figure 3: SOA changes IT and vendor focus In the SOA, the tax calculation business logic is separated from specific applications and presented as a service for applications and processes to consume. The applications themselves may become processes coded in BPEL, orchestrating services in sequence including the tax service. In other SOA implementations, some business logic capability is hosted as services, while legacy applications remain in service. The advantage of having the

6 tax routine deployed as a service is that it only needs to be modified once for all applications and processes. It also presents a readily and immediately available service for new applications and processes. This saves significant time and reduces change risk present in the traditional architecture described above. Red Hat redefines SOA as simple, open, and affordable Red Hat redefined SOA to be simple, open and affordable. Red Hat provides open source platforms, frameworks, and component architecture that are simple to procure and consume, allowing developers, ISVs, and enterprises to create solutions that realize the benefits of SOA. Open source is infinitely more malleable and flexible, and the licensing model offers more value and freedom. Red Hat also delivers standard-based products further supporting its open focus and enabling greater flexibility. JBoss subscriptions enable enterprise SOA deployments to be more affordable and realize greater value by eliminating expensive license fees and delivering high quality developer assist, production support, superior deployment experience, and superior customer satisfaction. The Red Hat vision for SOA is to bring JBoss Enterprise Middleware to an increasing number of customers, so that they can simplify and open up their existing and new SOA deployments in an affordable way. The market focus for SOA is, in many respects, an unserved market. That is, many organizations that have an SOA infrastructure been forced to build it themselves, due to the prohibitive and high cost of today s commercial SOA platforms. Red Hat is focused on addressing this unserved market with a cost-effective platform (JBoss Enterprise Middleware) paired with a vibrant partner ecosystem that magnifies the Red Hat and JBoss value. Beyond this unserved market, many businesses labor under heavy-weight, complex, and expensive SOA platforms. JBoss Enterprise Middleware offers those organizations a way out or at least a way to begin to reduce the financial and technical pain created by closed source, monolithic platforms. JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an affordable, easily-consumed set of Platforms and Frameworks. The open source model encourages a greater degree of openness and flexibility than traditional, closed source super platforms. The transparency of the open source model enables Red Hat, through JBoss, to deliver high quality services and support. This open architecture and open source model makes JBoss Enterprise Middleware attractive and safe for partners.

7 JBoss Enterprise Middleware: The open source platform for SOA JBoss Enterprise Middleware (Figure 4) is enterprise-class open source software that enables customers to build, deploy, integrate, orchestrate, and present web applications and services in a Service-Oriented Architecture. JBoss Enterprise Middleware decreases development complexity, improve inadequate end-user experience, and resolve business process friction. And because it is open source, JBoss Enterprise Middleware delivers unparalleled flexibility and significantly lower total cost of ownership than the leading competitors. JBOSS ENTERPRISE MIDDLEWARE JBOSS ENTERPRISE PLATFORMS JBOSS ENTERPRISE FRAMEWORKS RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX Windows, Unix, Other Linux JBoss Enterprise Platforms Open source software offers many benefits, but it does present one challenge. Having to integrate, and maintain the integrations between, the multiple community projects to meet your enterprise middleware platform needs can add complexity and cost to your IT operations. Red Hat solves this problem with JBoss Enterprise Platforms. JBoss Enterprise Platforms integrate the most popular JBoss.org projects into stable, secure, certified distributions with a single patch and update stream. JBoss Enterprise Platforms are available via subscriptions that include certified software, industry-leading support, updates and patches, documentation, and multi-year maintenance policies. The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (see Figure 5) is a perfect open source alternative for building, deploying, and hosting enterprise Java applications and SOA services. The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform integrates a clustered Java EE application server, O/R mapping and persistence, and a powerful application framework for building next generation Web 2.0 applications into a single distribution.

8 Figure 5. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Includes everything you need to run Javabased standard web and rich enterprise applications and host SOA services. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform JBoss Seam JBoss Hibernate JBoss Application Server Java EE, Apache Tomcat, Clustering, Cache Red Hat Enterprise Linux Windows, Unix, Other Linux The JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (see Figure 6), generally available in mid-2007, is designed to build and deploy portals for service aggregation and personalized presentation. It integrates a portal framework, CMS workflow functionality, and a clustered Java EE application server into a single distribution. Figure 6. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform. Includes everything you need to host and serve a portal s web interface, publish and manage its content, and personalize its experience. Later in 2007, Red Hat will introduce a platform that will enable integration and orchestration of services to automate business processes in a SOA. It will integrate an enterprise service bus, rules engine, business process automation, and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform into a single distribution. Figure 7 illustrates the plans for the SOA integration platform.

9 JBoss Frameworks In the real world, IT infrastructure environments often include a number of vendors. That s why, in addition to JBoss Enterprise Platforms, Red Hat also offers modular frameworks that run with any Java EE middleware platform. JBoss Frameworks (see Figure 8) include: JBoss Hibernate for industry-leading OR/Mapping and persistence. JBoss Seam for simplifying Web 2.0 application development. JBoss jbpm for enabling the creation and automation of business processes. JBoss Rules for easy business policy access, change, and management. JBoss Frameworks, like JBoss Enterprise Platforms, are available via subscriptions that include certified software, industry-leading support, updates and patches, documentation, and multi-year maintenance policies. JBoss SOA use cases Enterprise customers are deploying SOA implementations on JBoss Enterprise Middleware in increasing numbers. These customers are tired of architecting their SOAs around expensive proprietary license products. They look to open source platforms like JBoss Enterprise Middleware to relieve financial and technical pain associated with monolithic super platforms. Many of these enterprises, however, have significant investments in these super platforms. JBoss Enterprise Frameworks, such as JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, JBoss jbpm, and JBoss Rules, enable these customers to take advantage of the plug-and-play nature of JBoss Enterprise Middleware and its open and interoperable value proposition.

10 R.L. Polk Technologies: Creating competitive advantage with SOA R.L. Polk began a re-engineering effort to solidify its dominant market position as the leading data provider of vehicle and consumer data for the auto industry. The firm also sought to enhance competitive advantage by reducing cost, improving quality, and increasing processing efficiency. The project s objective was to replace legacy mainframe applications with an Enterprise Information Factory based on the concepts of lean manufacturing, and implement SOA. R. L. Polk Technologies used the JBoss Application Server and Hibernate as the foundation for their Enterprise Information Factory SOA deployment. They revolutionized their data collection processes creating a single view of enterprise data assets. This SOA deployment on JEMS strengthened their competitive advantage to provide automotive consumer and product data to their customers. For more information, see: DATTANI_RLPT-JBoss-June12th.pdf Orbitz: Versioning and deployment of SOA applications in a highly distributed environment In 2004, when Orbitz became part of Travel Distribution Services, (TDS), they decided to expand the number of travel web sites they managed. Their homegrown services platform implementation wouldn t scale to handle the expanded load. They needed to provision many web sites rapidly without extensive manual labor. They chose JBoss for its modular, scalable, and flexible JMX microkernel to host their new SOA environment. JBoss offered the technology, quality of support, financial benefits, and open source community that enabled Orbitz to gain competitive advantage. SOA offers numerous advantages for scalability and durability, but maintaining long-running systems using Java can be expensive. Managing and upgrading of services without client disruption is a complex problem with few solutions. Orbitz built a versioning and dispatching framework that uses the dispatcher pattern to invoke methods on remote services. The framework is implemented using the JBoss container and Jini technology available with the Java platform. The service discovery mechanism and support for service attributes in Jini play an integral role in allowing the framework to transparently locate and invoke versioned services. For more information, see: Fiserv GalaxyPlus Credit Union Systems: Leaping from legacy to SOA with JBoss Galaxy Plus, a division of Fiserv, Inc., provides data processing and information management products and services to the credit union industry. GalaxyPlus faced a challenge: To build an SOA for customers and partners to enable significant improvements in the customer and partner experience doing business with GalaxyPlus. Additionally, GalaxyPlus needed to improve integration with other internal business units that serve the health care, banking, and insurance industries. GalaxyPlus brought its legacy systems into the SOA world. By utilizing JBoss AS and web services, GalaxyPlus was able to rapidly provide new value-oriented features to its credit union customers while extending the life of existing technology investments. They accomplished this by using JBoss AS web services. GalaxyPlus chose JBoss for three reasons: 10

11 Positive referral Low barrier to entry (open source) Immediate ROI JEMS played a primary role in their implementation to host GalaxyPlus s business and web services tiers and used connection pooling through JCA and JDBC to interface with databases and their EIS. For more information, see: Interoperability and JBoss Enterprise Middleware support of SOA standards The primary goal of investing in SOA throughout the enterprise is to create an IT infrastructure that is more nimble and adaptable to changes associated with the functional aspects of business needs. Business units have historically responded to fast and everchanging market conditions, customer demands, and industry-wide regulatory changes by building, buying, merging, and acquiring new technology or entire businesses. Executives demand the ability to adapt to new trends regardless of how inflexible or brittle their current IT infrastructure is. Expediting satisfaction of these demands typically involves a solution that often requires a new technology platform from yet another vendor. Heterogeneous IT infrastructures are the result. A resilient, flexible SOA infrastructure means success today and preparedness for the unknowns of tomorrow. How is interoperability achieved? Standards matter and JBoss is aggressively working with standards bodies and certification efforts. JBoss Enterprise Middleware supports the key Java, XML, and Web services standards that have been widely adopted by most of the industry to build SOA infrastructure. JBoss Enterprise Middleware supports these standards to enable ISV, partner, and enterprise interoperability and integration. The open source model drives mass adoption by utilizing a vast community to validate a technology and prove its success in the IT infrastructure of both large and small businesses. Open source drives de facto standards and ubiquity of a proven solution, allowing you to more easily find resources and ensure connectivity and interoperability. In addition to massive community adoption and de facto standards, JBoss is actively participating in various standards bodies to take the innovations that have been vetted by the masses and working with a consortium of other vendors to deliver industry-wide specifications. JBoss is on the Executive Committee and is an active participant in the Java Community Process (JCP) where we have helped shape Java EE, focused on simplification of the middleware programming models. 11

12 A partial list of SOA standards supported by JBoss Enterprise Middleware include: SOAP 1.1 WSDL 1.1 UDDI 2.0 & access via JAXR 1.0 WS4EE 1.1 JAXRPC 1.1 SAAJ 1.2 XML 1.0 XML Schema Part 1: Structures XML Schema Part 2: Data types WS-I BP 1.0 WS-Security 1.0 JSR-261 JAX-WSA WS-Addressing 1.0 WS-Coordination 1.0 WS-AtomicTransaction 1.0 WS-BusinessActivity 1.0 JAX-WS 2.0 SOAP 1.2 MTOM WS-BPEL 1.1 (beta) Red Hat raised to the power of partners SOA is about improving business execution and IT s ability to respond to business change and opportunities. To fully maximize a SOA, an enterprise will need to draw on resources beyond any single IT vendor. For IT vendors, Red Hat s open source model offers the best of the open source community along with a cohesive and high quality SOA platform around which to build their solutions. JBoss Enterprise Middleware is a safe choice for Red Hat partners, since Red Hat does not compete with SOA professional service providers and independent software vendors. Advantages of using JBoss Enterprise Middleware for SOA: A large partner ecosystem Red Hat built a large ecosystem of partners to extend, complement, and support JBoss Enterprise Middleware with additional software, hardware, and professional services. Red Hat JBoss Certified Partners add significant value to JBoss Enterprise Middleware deployments 12

13 and help enterprises build SOAs to improve business execution. Figure 9 illustrates a range of Red Hat JBoss Certified Partners. These include nearly all of the system providers, many solution providers and services companies. Key areas of the solutions stack JBoss Certified Partner s build businesses in include: Platforms and systems providers e.g., Azul, Dell, HP, NEC, Sun, Unisys Middleware and solution partners e.g., AmberPoint, ATG, DataDirect, SOA Software Interoperability with existing solutions Strategically focused on interoperability alliances such as with Microsoft SOA services providers e.g., Capgemini, HP, Unisys Figure 9. Examples of some of the key JBoss partners. System Integrators ISVs OEMs Training and Resell Partners SOA solution example: HP Red Hat partnership Red Hat and HP partner to provide a complete SOA solution ranging from JBoss Enterprise Middleware, HP s OpenView, to HP Services for SOA. HP is a key partner that provides SOA and integration services, including business assessments, building on JBoss Enterprise Middleware. HP is a Red Hat JBoss partner in the following roles: Premier Technology Partner Premier Systems Integrator (this is where JEMS-based SOA services come in) JBoss Authorized Service Partner 13

14 Additionally, JBoss Application Server is a component of the HP open source middleware stacks: HP s open source solution stack framework. The program comprises three elements: Open source building blocks Open source middleware technology components sold and supported by HP, such as JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Symas OpenLDAP Open source blueprints Do-it-yourself guides, recipes, and white papers for HP Open Source JEE Application Server and HP open source web application server environments Open source consulting services HP offers a range of services to build SOA on top of open source technologies like JBoss Enterprise Middleware. This includes services like governance models for open source and SOA, performance tuning of infrastructure and applications built on open source, and modernization services to help customers migrate infrastructure and applications into an open source environment. For see information, see: HP SOA services for JBoss Enterprise Middleware HP has a complete service offering for SOA built on JBoss Enterprise Middleware. These services span the complete SOA lifecycle from initial envisioning and business assessments to management of deployed implementations. The following chart describes HP s startup, business assessment, and architecture services for SOA development, as well as development, deployment, and management services. Portfolio of HP SOA services for JBoss Enterprise Middleware: HP SERVICE SOA Envisioning SOA Assessment SOA Governance & Architecture SOA Enablement SOA Service Development DESCRIPTION Intended for large enterprises to develop an understanding of SOA concepts and to identify the benefits and potential impacts on the enterprise. Utilizes the HP SOA Agility Assessment approach to help customers develop a comprehensive roadmap to guide the adoption of SOA across the enterprise. Establishes the SOA Architecture Program Office, to oversee enterprise architecture and the SOA governance model as the enterprise is transformed. Based on learnings from the Governance and Architecture service, SOA Enablement prepares the infrastructure for the implementation of SOA. Helps the customer define, develop, and deploy SOA business and IT services across the enterprise, line of business, department, or at a project level. 14

15 HP SERVICE SOA Software Development SOA Management DESCRIPTION Provides for volume and scale in development and delivery of business and IT services through the SOA adoption. Ensures maximized productivity from customer development teams by utilizing global software development capability. For enterprises looking to gain control of their SOA adoption, including life-cycle management, services management, monitoring, auditing, analysis, service level agreements, and policies. SOA partnership example: Unisys and Red Hat Unisys is focused on SOA as an architectural approach utilized by public and private sector organizations to organize the discrete functions contained in enterprise and legacy applications into standards-based services that may be combined, configured, and reused to meet ever-changing business needs. Unisys believes that this modular approach to IT can contribute to business process flexibility, agility, and relevance. Unisys strategy for helping organizations achieve the benefits of SOA is to offer practical products and services around the plan, build, run, and manage life-cycle that helps transform and integrate existing investments and legacy assets into next-generation service architecture. The road to SOA starts with plan or envisioning workshops to align the organization with the fast-moving business services and the underlying application infrastructure. Thanks to experience in the communications and transportation industry, as well as the public sector, Unisys understood the challenges of aligning often disparate segments of an organization s process, application, and IT infrastructure. The next step to SOA is the build and run efforts to transform the architectural design into production-ready implementations. Unisys enables this by providing people and services grounded in best practices around each step in the SOA lifecycle. Another unique capability offered by Unisys is performance tuning, security, and scalability services that are core to any infrastructure platform, especially when using XML and web services. Best in class SOA enabling product offerings like JBoss Enterprise Middleware are the first choice of Unisys for implementing SOA architecture. Red Hat s JBoss technology leverages all the benefits of open source but is based on design principles that enable flexibility and extensibility. This means there is never a question of can it be done, but rather how to best use the many capabilities available in JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Whether the SOA implementation requires some basic integration using web services or a new architecture around Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with Business Process Modeling, JBoss Enterprise Middleware provides the foundation to accomplish the goals cost-effectively. Unisys strongly believes that the JBoss implementation of standards (Java EE 5) and thought leadership in middleware make the free flow of information, processes, and services possible. This best of breed open middleware is a perfect foundation to blend, build, and deploy service-enabled applications. 15

16 Why JBoss Enterprise Middleware for your SOA? SOA is about improving business and IT execution. With strong partners with business and technical professional services, software and hardware, Red Hat is well positioned to help enterprises realize their potential with SOA, and the underlying technology JBoss Enterprise Middleware is a critical part of the SOA puzzle. Red Hat rounds JBoss Enterprise Middleware out with high quality technical support and services with the JBoss subscription to speed enterprises along to their SOA-enabled business goals. The open source business model is designed to let customers and partners expand to huge deployments. Since there is no per-cpu charge, customers can scale up and out to meet their business needs whether it s a large central grid or a distributed store network of 3,000 locations. And Red Hat doesn t lock customers into a closed, proprietary, and expensive implementation. All JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platforms and Frameworks are based on industry standards that assure interoperability. Financial services, media, and insurance companies are just some of the types of enterprises that are building their SOAs on JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Effectiveness, consumability, ease-of-development and deployment, and reduced cost are key tenets for a successful SOA platform. Built with the open source model resulting in high customer satisfaction, JBoss Enterprise Middleware is the market s only open source platform for SOA. JBoss Enterprise Middleware provides mass-market economics for an enterprise SOA platform. For more information, see Contact sales Red Hat Headquarters 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh, NC USA Phone: (919) JBoss Division United States 3340 Peachtree Road, NE Suite 1200 Atlanta, GA USA Phone (404) Fax (404) sales@jboss.com 16

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