Service Oriented Java Business Integration: Enterprise Service Bus integration solutions for Java developers (Paperback)

~ Binildas A. Christudas (Author)
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In Detail

The goal of Java Business Integration (JBI) is to allow components and services to be integrated in a vendor-independent way, allowing users and vendors to plug and play.

Java Business Integration (JBI) is a specification aiming to define a Service Provider Interface for integration containers so that integration components written for these containers are portable across containers and also integrate with other components or services using standard protocols and formats. JBI is based on JSR 208, which is an extension of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE).

This book first discusses the various integration approaches available and introduces the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), a new architectural pattern that facilitates integrating services. ESB provides mediation services including routing and transformation. Java Business Integration (JBI) provides a collaboration framework that provides standard interfaces for integration components and protocols to plug into, thus allowing the assembly of Service-Oriented Integration (SOI) frameworks following the ESB pattern. Once JBI and ESB are introduced, we look at how we have been doing service integration without either of these using traditional J2EE. The book then slowly introduces ESB and, with the help of code, showcases how easily things can be done using JBI.

What you will learn from this book?

• Assembling services and porting them across containers using JBI
• Exposing EJB as a WSDL-compliant service across firewalls
• Binding remote services to ESB to be consumed internally
• Exposing local components in ESB like POJO as externally accessible WSDL-compliant services
• Providing a web service gateway for external consumers
• Accessing web services over a reliable transport channel like JMS
• Implementing web service versioning using ESB
• Implementing service aggregation at ESB
• Transactions, Security, Clustering, and JMX in ESB

Approach

The book covers all concepts with examples that can be built, deployed, and run by readers using the Apache Ant tool in Apache ServiceMix, which is an open-source Enterprise Service Bus that combines the functionality of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an Event Driven Architecture (EDA).

The aim of this book is to prepare an architect or developer for building integration solutions using ESB. To that end, this book takes a practical approach, emphasizing how to get things done in ServiceMix with code. When needed, it delves into the theoretical aspects of ESB, and such discussions are supplemented with working samples. The book, thus, distils some of the knowledge that has emerged over the last decade in the realm of Java Integration.

Who this book is written for?

This book is aimed at Java developers and integration architects who want to become proficient with the Java Business Integration (JBI) standard. Readers should have some experience with Java and have developed and deployed applications in the past, but need no previous knowledge of JBI. The book can also be useful to anyone who is struggling to understand ESB and how it differs from other architectures and to understand its position in SOA.

This book primarily targets IT professionals in the field of SOA and Integration solutions--in other words, intermediate to advanced users. You are likely to find the book useful if you fall into any of the following categories:

• A programmer, designer, or architect in Java who wants to learn and code in JBI or ESB.
• A programmer, designer, or architect who doesn't normally code in Java can still benefit from this book, since we 'assemble integration components' using XML with little to no Java code.
• An IT Manager or an Officer who knows well about SOA or SOI but want to see something in code (you can adorn your flashy presentations with some live code too).

About the Author

Binildas A. Christudas

Binildas C. A. provides Technical Architecture consultancy for IT solutions. He has over 13 years of IT experience, mostly in Microsoft and Sun technologies. Distributed Computing and Service Oriented Integration are his main stream skills, with extensive hands-on experience in Java and C#.NET programming. Binil holds a BTech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Trivandrum and an MBA in Systems Management, from Institute of Management, Kerala. A well-known and a highly sought-after thought leader, Binil has designed and built many highly scalable middle-tier and integration solutions for several top-notch clients including Fortune 500 companies. He has been previously employed by multiple IT consulting firms including IBS Software Services and Tata Consultancy Services and currently works for Infosys Technologies as a Principal Architect where he heads the J2EE Architects group servicing Communications Service Provider clients.

Binil is a Sun Certified Programmer (SCJP), Developer (SCJD), Business Component Developer (SCBCD) and Enterprise Architect (SCEA), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Open Group (TOGAF8) Certified Enterprise Architecture Practitioner. He is also a Licensed Zapthink Architect (LZA) in SOA. Besides Technical Architecture Binil also practices Enterprise Architecture.

When not in software, Binil spends time with wife Sowmya & daughter Ann in `God's Own Country', Kerala. Binil does long distance running and is a national medalist in Power Lifting. You may contact Binil at [e-mail] or [e-mail].

Binildas A. Christudas

Binildas C. A. provides Technical Architecture consultancy for IT solutions. He has over 13 years of IT experience, mostly in Microsoft and Sun technologies. Distributed Computing and Service Oriented Integration are his main stream skills, with extensive hands-on experience in Java and C#.NET programming. Binil holds a BTech.A well-known and a highly sought-after thought leader, Binil has designed and built many highly scalable middle-tier and integration solutions for several top-notch clients including Fortune 500 companies.

Binil is a Sun Certified Programmer (SCJP), Developer (SCJD), Business Component Developer (SCBCD) and Enterprise Architect (SCEA), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Open Group (TOGAF8) Certified Enterprise Architecture Practitioner. He is also a Licensed Zapthink Architect (LZA) in SOA. Besides Technical Architecture Binil also practices Enterprise Architecture.Binil does long distance running and is a national medalist in Power Lifting. You may contact Binil at [e-mail] or [e-mail].

Product Details

• Paperback: 436 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (March 12, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847194400
• ISBN-13: 978-1847194404
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #520,367 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars JBI as a successor to EJB ?!, April 2, 2008

By	W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Read the introductory texts on Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services Description Language? Perhaps you've noticed that those sometimes frustratingly refer to more elaborate business processes that can be built atop them. How to do this? Now SOA and WSDL are strictly independent of an implementing programming language. But just suppose that you're willing to pick Java.

One result is that you can turn to this book. It shows recent, state of the art, Java packages and standards, that use SOA and WSDL. Java Business Integration is still fairly new and the text gives its basics. The applications are manifold. One major case is to extend or incorporate EJBs across a set of WSDL machines. If you recall, EJBs predate WSDL by several years. And most books on EJB talk about using it within a system of computers run by the same company. The blending of existing EJBs with a WSDL setup is otherwise awkward, without JBI.

You might even consider JBI as a successor to EJB, in the Web Services environment. JBI proponents would argue it's much more than that. But in terms of explaining JBI, especially to people who've invested time in coding EJBs, it's a useful concept.

The book also talks about existing ways to learn and build JBI components. Foremost amongst these is the use of the Service Mix container. It holds JBI components. That is its task. Just like EJBs need an EJB container. But Service Mix is also a JBI component in its own right. For Java programmers, the analogy is to something like a JPanel that is a container for Swing widgets, but which is also a widget. Hence, Service Mix has a nice modular design that makes it interoperable with other JBI containers that might be developed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good if you're desperate for ServiceMix examples, April 29, 2008

By	Marc Peabody "JavaRanch Bartender" (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was hoping to simply learn more about Java Business Integration. The first 70 pages are a decent start on this. Following that, however, ServiceMix component tutorials abound, and not in an entertaining cover-to-cover read kind of way.

The writing is often wordy and grammar and spelling slips are fairly common. Most books I set down to thoughtfully consider interesting points but more often I wondered why the author boasted working with many desperate systems (later I realized the author meant disparate) or if wetting my hands with code was anything like getting them dirty.

There isn't much of a practical flow from chapter to chapter, the "Use Cases" never really explain the problems that the samples solve, and seeing my console's output match the book's screenshots after running the code (which is completely downloadable) isn't particularly gratifying.

If you're working with ServiceMix but frustrated by a lack of documentation, then this book might be the right fit for you. Otherwise I recommend you save your money for something else.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good hands-on ESB book, April 14, 2008

By	Shyam Sankar S - See all my reviews

Service Oriented Java Business Integration is a well structured and well written book targeted at Java developers and integration architects.

The most attractive feature of this book is the hands-on approach it takes. Each and every concept is dealt with in detail with the aid of a sample use case, sequence diagrams and explanations for the same, complete code listing, instructions on packaging, deploying and running the sample. The author also goes on to explain what happens when the code is run. This book can even be a very good companion on long flights. Even without a computer to try out what is explained, the reader will be able to grasp a great deal with the help of the code listings and the instructions. Most problems addressed by the author in the book are those integration architects face on a daily basis.

The book has some good introductory sections on ESB, JBI, the open source ESB ServiceMix, XPath and XFire. Exposing EJB services and annotated POJO as ESB services, binding web services with the ServiceMix ESB, accessing web services using the JMS channel etc. are all explained with the help of detailed examples. There are some good sections on developing custom JBI components and packaging and deploying JBI components. The highlights of the book are the chapters on versioning of services and EAI patterns. Each EAI pattern is explained with a use case and code listing. QoS features are also dealt upon briefly.

There are some chapters and sections in the book that look a bit out of place, like a chapter on binding without ESB or JBI, after ESB and JBI are introduced.

All in all, a very good practical reference and guidelines book on Service Oriented Java Business Integration from the point of view of a developer/architect.