BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development: Ten practical real-world case studies combining business ... management and web services orchestration (Paperback)

~ Jeremy Bolie (Author), Michael Cardella (Author), Stany Blanvalet (Author), Matjaz Juric (Author), Sean Carey (Author), Praveen Chandran (Author), Yves Coene (Author), Kevin Geminiuc (Author), Markus Zirn (Editor), Harish Gaur (Editor)

Editorial Reviews

Review

The real-life experiences in this book are an excellent way to understand how SOA can work for you right now. -- J.R. Jesson, CTO, EDS Application Portfolio Development

This book offers a unique opportunity to learn from ten of the most advanced adopters of BPEL. -- Stephen D. Hendrick, Group Vice President, Application Development and Deployment Research, IDC

Product Description

Ten practical real-world case studies combining business process management and web services orchestration

• Real-world BPEL recipes for SOA integration and Composite Application development
• Combining business process management and web services orchestration
• Techniques and best practices with downloadable code samples from ten real-world case studies

In Detail
Service Oriented Architecture is generating a buzz across the whole IT industry. Propelled by standards-based technologies like XML, Web Services, and SOAP, SOA is quickly moving from pilot projects to mainstream applications critical to business operations. One of the key standards accelerating the adoption of SOA is Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL).

BPEL was created to enable effective composition of web services in a service-oriented environment. In the past two years, BPEL has become the most significant standard to elevate the visibility of SOA from IT to business level. BPEL is not only commoditizing the integration market, but it is also offering organizations a whole new level of agility - ability to rapidly change applications in response to the changing business landscape. BPEL enables organizations to automate their business processes by orchestrating services within and across the firewall. It forces organizations to think in terms of services. Existing functionality is exposed as services. New applications are composed using services. Communication with external vendors and partners is through services. Services are reused across different applications. Services are, or should be, everywhere!

What you will learn from this book?

In the Packt book Business Process Execution Language for Web Services by Matjaz Juric, we learnt about the building blocks and how these technologies could be used to build a simple SOA solution. As organizations increase their SOA footprint, IT Managers, Architects, and developers are starting to realize that the impact of SOA on IT and business operations can be immense. After having gained confidence with web services, they want to take it to the next level. However, adopters are challenged with some basic questions - How do I SOA-enable my existing integration investment? Can I build flexible and agile business processes? How can I administer my SOA environment without spending a fortune? There have been various best practices defined around SOA, but to date these have been somewhat abstract and lacking a real-world basis. The IT community is looking for real-world examples; examples of how other companies are embarking on an SOA initiative and how to apply that industry learning to their own projects.

What makes this a Cookbook? After you have been exposed to the different ingredients (BPEL, WSDL, and web services), this book takes the adventure to the next level by helping you cook new recipes (SOA applications) using efficient kitchen techniques (best practices). 10 SOA practitioners have gotten together to share their SOA best practices and provide practical viewpoints to tackle many of the common problems SOA promises to solve. Their recommendations are based on projects in production; their existing projects could be your next ones. Through this process you'll learn the techniques and gain the confidence to create and deliver the recipe that's right for your particular situation.

Who this book is written for?

This book is aimed at architects and developers building applications in Service Oriented Architecture. The book presumes knowledge of BPEL, SOA, XML, web services, and multi-tier architectures.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904811337
• ISBN-13: 978-1904811336
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #564,747 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Expensive magazine, September 25, 2006

By	ajorani (Danbury, CT United States) - See all my reviews

Oracle-centric. Very short book, could be a magazine. Take out the screenshots and code snippets and it's a $45 pamphlet. Most of the recipes are cooked using Oracle products. The descriptions and back cover are misleading. Not recommended if you are interested in other solution providers.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Practices for SOA Integration on the Money, November 16, 2006

By	Richard A. Colton "Rich Colton" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The BPEL Cookbook is an excellent practical guide to real-world SOA integration issues. It is not a "Learn BPEL" book, but rather the next step once you learn how to develop in BPEL. It addresses various types of issues that one needs to consider when developing BPEL processes. Chapter 3, "Building the Service Value Chain", addresses the core of building a SOA architecture that the business process must be standardized and documented. While a couple of chapters are Oracle BPEL centric, the rest of the chapters address generic issues of any BPEL implementation. In particular, Reliable Messaging, Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF), building dynamic BPEL processes, and centralizing logging and error handling. For those using Oracle BPEL, chapter 5 shows how to use the Worklist API to build a rich Internet application. And chapter 2 shows how to integrate PeopleSoft CRM with Oracle eBusiness Suite.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful for the Architects who are architecting SOA solution using Oracle BPEL Process Manager, September 27, 2006

By	Saumitra Chattopadhyay (Fremont, CA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Many of our clients are migrating from traditional Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to the standard based SOA. This book has ten real-world case studies, which helped me to architect the solutions. Sometimes I use this book as best practices of Oracle BPEL-PM .
I like this book because the approach is more real-life examples than theory. Developers with minimum experience in SOA world will be able to leverage this emerging technology very easily.
Even though this book is useful for anybody to understand SOA and BPEL, this is extra useful for the people who are using Oracle Fusion Middleware (BPEL Process Manager).