SOA on Demand

Ulf Fildebrandt
Chief Development Architect SOA Infrastructure
SAP AG

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SAP and me
SAP
Founded 1972, nearly 50000 employees
Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, with regional offices
SAP is the largest software enterprise in Europe and the fourth largest
software enterprise in the world as of 2009
The company's best known product is its SAP Enterprise Resource
Planning (SAP ERP) software
SAP NetWeaver provides all SOA frameworks (ESB, Repository, Rules)

Ulf Fildebrandt
Studied computer science in Hildesheim
Working for SAP since 1998
Responsible architect for SAP NetWeaver PI (an ESB) and SAP
NetWeaver Composition Environment
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Market Trends

Architecture

Cloud
Elastic Computing
Cloud computing
brings elasticity to computing (pay as you
go)
lowers administration costs

Software
Software as
as aa Service
Service

SPI model

Platform
Platform as
as aa Service
Service

Infrastructure
Infrastructure as
as aa Service
Service

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Web 2.0
Social Networks
Social Networks
allow interaction between people
are created focused on common interests
look different for every user (friends,
followers, etc.)
create communities for every topic

Business Networks

Social
networks
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Mobile
Mobile devices
provide permanent access to services
provide a platform to allow people
interaction
usually require a middleware to adapt
the data to mobile needs (size,
performance)

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Evolution of SOA

SOA
SOA
Repositor
Repositor
y
y
ESB
ESB

BPM
BPM

SOA
SOA
Services
Services

Monitorin
Monitorin
g
g

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Rules
Rules

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Market Trends

Architecture

Open Source
Game Changer for Software
Apache
10 years of software development
Projects like Tomcat, Lucene, Cassandra, Axis2,
and many more

Eclipse
9 years of software development (started 2001)
Basis for Eclipse IDE
During the last year runtime projects are started:
Equinox, etc.

Others
Like Spring, jQuery, etc.

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Integrated SOA
On Premise

On Demand
Collaboration
Collaboration

Runtime
Runtime
Runtime
Runtime
BPM
BPM

Reposit
Reposit
ory
ory

Runtime
Runtime
Runtime
Runtime
Rules
Rules

BPM
BPM

ESB
ESB
Monitori
Monitori
ng
ng

Rules
Rules

ESB
ESB

Monitori
Monitori
ng
ng

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Reposit
Reposit
ory
ory

SEDA
SEDA (Staged Event Driven Architecture)
Events allow asynchronous execution
Stages allow parallel execution
Cloud environments have to be optimized for parallel execution

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Key
Key message
message

Basic Runtime(s)
Components are assembled into small runtimes
(stages)
Set of reusable components

ActiveM
ActiveM
Q
Q

Service
Service
Mix
Mix

Apache
Apache
CXF
CXF

Cassand
Cassand
ra
ra

Database
Database
Tier
Tier
Cassand
Cassand
ra
ra

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Integratio
Integratio
n
n Tier
Tier
Service
Service
Mix
Mix

Assembly

Equinox
Equinox

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Tomcat
Tomcat

Equino
Equino
x
x

Set of components
Tomcat
Tomcat

Web
Web Tier
Tier

Equino
Equino
x
x

Equino
Equino
x
x

Key
Key message
message

Classic ESB + Additions

Classic ESBs can be extended by new runtime nodes (e.g. scale out scenarios)
New nodes can play an arbitrary role (messaging, process, storage, etc.)

Cluster
Cluster
Classic
Classic
ESB
ESB

JMS
JMS

OSGi
OSGi
node
node

OSGi
OSGi
node
node

Message
Message
Provider
Provider

Message
Message
Provider
Provider

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JMS
JMS

JMS
JMS

On Demand SOA Architecture

Web
Web
Tier
Web
Tier
WebTier
Tier

Web
Web
Tier
Web
Tier
WebTier
Tier

BPM
BPM

Reposito
Reposito
ry
ry

Tomcat
Tomcat

Tomcat
Tomcat

Equinox
Equinox

Equinox
Equinox

Integratio
Integratio
Web
Tier
Web
Tier
Service
Service
n
Tier
nMix
Tier
Mix
Equinox
Equinox

Database
Database
Database
Database
Cassand
Cassand
Tier
Tier
Tier
Tier
ra
ra
Equinox
Equinox

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Connectiv
Connectiv
Web
Web Tier
Tier
ity
ity
Apache
Apache
Tier
Tier
CXF
CXF
Equinox
Equinox

Example Landscape (Focus BPM)

Repository
Repository

System
System A
A

Customer A

B
B
1
B1
B
2
B2
B
3
B3
B
4
4

S
S
1
S1
S
2
S2
S
3
S3
S
4
S4
S
5
5

System
System
C
C

System
System
B
B
Customer

B
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Published
Services

C
C
1
C1
C
2
C2
C
3
C3
C
4
4

B
B
1
B1
B
2
B2
B
3
B3
B
4
C4
C
1
C1
C
2
C2
C
3
C3
C
4
4

S
S
1
S1
S
2
S2
S
3
S3
S
4
S4
S
5
5

BPM
BPM

Example Landscape (Focus Mobile)

ESB
ESB
(middleware)
(middleware)

C
C
1
C1
C
2
C2
C
3
C3
C
4
4

Mobile
devices

Connection
Connection
designed
designed for
for
Mobile
Mobile

System
System A
A

Customer A

B
B
1
B1
B
2
B2
B
3
B3
B
4
4

S
S
1
S1
S
2
S2
S
3
S3
S
4
S4
S
5
5

System
System
C
C

System
System
B
B
Customer

B
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Characteristics of on demand
solutions

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Integration on demand/on
premise
On
On Premise
Premise
SOA
SOA

Mail
Mail
server
server

Web
Web
server
server

Service
Service call
call
WS*
WS*
REST
REST (JSON,
(JSON,
XML)
XML)
Simple
Simple transfer
transfer
Email
Email (mail
(mail server
server on
on
premise)
premise)
Resource
Resource download
download (BPMN
(BPMN
2.0)
2.0)
Secure
Secure channel
channel
Web
Web server
server in
in the
the DMZ
DMZ for
for
secure
secure communication
communication

Runtime
Runtime
SOA
SOA

Collaboratio
Collaboratio
n
n

Cloud
Cloud
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
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Take aways

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