SOA tagged posts

January 31, 2018 Posted in Blogs, BPM, Enterprise Integration, ESB, SOA

It’s an era with many directions! There are so many tools available for enterprise integration. To choose the right one usually means whether the organization may get expected return on the possible huge investment.

Each enterprise integration requirement can be different. I assume you are working in a SOA environment, facing the pressure to move to cloud, but not quite ready.

We will talk about our preferred BPM and ESB tools, plus the choice of SOA integration and web service protocols.

Let’s start from analyzing business requirements and setting the processes using BPM application. By defining business processes, we get well-defined boundaries of services.

BPM: Activiti (Open Source, Free)

Alfresco Activiti can be the best choice to define and manage business processes and workflows...

December 26, 2017 Posted in Blogs, ESB

Nowadays, to use SOA-based architecture is the main option for enterprise application integration. There are quite a few handy open source candidates from Apache, MuleSoft and Talend, etc. Plus almost all major vendors’ ESB offerings, including IBM (Integration Bus), Oracle (OSB, SOA Suite), Software AG (webMethods), TIBCO (ActiveMatrix), Microsoft (BizTalk) and SAP (NetWeaver) etc.  Now the question is, among all of them, which one is the right one for your organization?

Before diving into following tools section, it’s worth to learn 65 enterprise integration patterns (EIP) to gain some knowledge about what and how in this area.

This article will mainly focus on open source solutions since they are more and more popular...

May 28, 2015 Posted in Blogs

Prerequisites: Enterprise Architecture, Oracle WebCenter Portal, Content, SOA, SOFEA, ADF

Recently I built up a PowerPoint presentation for a potential client. This client has Oracle Fusion Middleware in place and starts their digital strategies in order to improve their online services.

This presentation starts from introducing enterprise architecture, methodologies and frameworks, walks through enterprise architecture domains, discusses WebCenter portal application integration, application and site migration plan, summarizes ADF project best practices.

This presentation sums up my many years experiences and best practices on ADF development, explains profound enterprise architecture design in intuitive way, highlights numerous key points in implementations, from data architecture, applic...