Prescriptive Guidance for SOA

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Prescriptive Guidance for SOA

• Peter Roden
• Director of Technology Development
• OASIS

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What is OASIS?

• OASIS Organization for the Advancement of
  Structured Information Standards
• OASIS has been developing e-Standards since 1993
• OASIS is a member-led, international non-profit
  standards consortium concentrating on structured
  information and global e-business standards.
• Close to 5000 members and 500 organizations
• Supports over 60 technical committees producing
  royalty-free and RAND standards in an open
  process.

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OASIS Member Distribution

• 50
• Technology Providers
• Software vendors
• Industry organisations
• Individuals / small developers

• 15
• Government Academic
• Governments
• Universities
• Research centres related nonprofits

• 35
• Users and influencers
• User companies
• Vertical industry organisations
• Individuals / small consultancies

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OASIS Membership Expanding Globally
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Functional Categories to Track Standards Work
ORCHESTRATION MANAGEMENT
DATA CONTENT
SECURITY ACCESS
SOA
DESCRIPTION
MESSAGING
DISCOVERY
COMMON MESSAGE (XML)
COMMON TRANSPORT
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OASIS Technical Standards
ASAP, BTP, ebXML-BP, WSBPEL, WSCAF
CIQ, CGM, DocBook, OpenDocument, UBL
AVDL, eGOV, Election, eProc, Emergency, Legal
XML, Materials, PLCS, PPS, TaxML, TransWs, WAS,
XLIFF, (Auto Repair)
ORCHESTRATION MANAGEMENT
DATA CONTENT
DCML (x3), WSDM, WSRF, WS-Notification
SPML, XACML, (DSML)
ABCM, (Conformance), ebSOA, FWSI, SOA Blueprints,
SOA-RM
SECURITY ACCESS
SOA
DESCRIPTION
ebXML CPPA, HumanML, UIML, WSRP
DSS, PKI, SAML, WS-Security, XCBF
DITA, EntityRes, Topic Maps, Pub. Subj, XDI, XRI
ebXML, RegRep, UDDI
MESSAGING
DISCOVERY
ebXML MSG, ebXML IIC, WS-Reliability, WS-RX
Relax NG, XSLT Conformance
COMMON MESSAGE (XML)
COMMON TRANSPORT
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Technical trends in OASIS work

• Infrastructure work is maturing
• The action is moving up the "stack" to content
  and semantics
• Stronger emphasis on service orientation
  interoperability and re-use
• End users are providing more of the content

ORCHESTRATION MANAGEMENT
DATA CONTENT
SECURITY ACCESS
SOA
DESCRIPTION
MESSAGING
DISCOVERY
COMMON MESSAGE (XML)
COMMON TRANSPORT
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Prescriptive to lay down as a guide, direction,
or rule of action
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Business Centric Methodology TC

1. BCM templates for the Repository
2. Information architecture
3. Connections

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SOA Blueprints TC

• Methodology
• Open-Source RFP
• Built around Generico
• Donation from CapGemini for defining Business
  Requirements
• Donation from WellsFargo
• Open-Source POC
• Vendor-Neutral source of information and
  benchmarks
• Best Practices Patterns
• http//dev.bea.com/technologies/soa/blueprint.jsp
• Reference implementations from BEA, Microsoft,
  Oracle, Sun

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SOA Blueprint Goals

• Part of a long term project, SOA Blueprints aims
  to
• Define a baseline standardized set of enterprise
  applications
• Focus on SOA principles
• Highlight SOA design patterns and best practices
• Encourage SOA adoption
• Be industry agnostic
• Be applicable to as many organizations as
  possible
• The specification will lead to
• An agreement on SOA terminology
• A reference open source implementation
• An implementation by vendors
• Additional modules with particular industry focus

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SOA Blueprints Implementation Environments

• Definition of services independent of
  implementation, location or use
• Implementation and hosting of services as a
  provider
• Location and usage of services as a consumer
• Assembly of services from other services and
  business rules
• Support for synchronous, asynchronous and
  conversational services
• Orchestration of application presentation built
  on services and rules
• Automated data transformation between disparate
  data structures
• Provisioning of local and remote services
• Support for simulating, testing and debugging of
  services

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More OASIS SOA Prescriptive Work

• ebSOA
• Update the ebXML Architecture in an SOA context
• Framework for WS Implementation
• design a template for Web services deployment to
  enable systems integrators, software vendors, and
  in-house developers to build e-commerce solutions
  more quickly
• SOA Reference Model
• define a reference model for Service Oriented
  Architecture
• Semantic Execution Environment
• guidelines, justifications and implementation
  directions for an execution environment for
  Semantic Web services

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End-User Company Benefits

• Influence direction and priorities of standards
  development by aligning your strategic
  requirements with the standards
• Learn and adopt best practices
• Improve Vendor and Partner selection through a
  better understanding of why they are choosing
  their implementation and product directions
• Shift training expenses to standards
  participation to better educate technical staff
  on trends and developments of technology
• Observe practical implementations from multiple
  vendors for given business scenarios
• Speed up your implementations by participating in
  multi-vendor interoperability demonstrations with
  your specific use cases

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• Peter Roden
• Director of Technology Development
• OASIS
• 630 Boston Road
• Billerica, MA 01821
• USA
• 1 978 667 5115 Ext. 210 (Voice)
• 1 978 761 1648 (Mobile)
• 1 978 667 5114 (Fax)
• Peter.Roden_at_oasis-open.org