DOSUG Tech Overview of XAware

© XAware Inc. 2008

XAware Technology Overview

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Presenter

Kirstan Vandersluis Founder, Chief Science Officer at XAware XAware Project Leader

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Agenda

XAware Project Overview XAware Technology Features XAware’s place in the SOA Stack Product Components XAware Metadata Creating an XML View Deployment Environments Demonstrations

Data Service from File, Database Inbound XML Processing into different databases

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XAware Project Overview

XAware provides real-time data integration environment Eclipse Plugin IDE Runtime Engine: J2EE, Servlet, Batch Mode, Java API

Project hosted on www.xaware.org Forums, Wiki, Hives, Blogs Self-training material Forge on www.SourceForge.net

Binary Distributions (All-In-One and Eclipse Plugin) Source Code Bug Tracker

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Problem: Over 60% of development time spent on Data Access

Transactions Error Handling Extension Points Security

Inbound XML Decomposition Synchronization Conditional Logic

Aggregation Data Chaining

Solution: XML abstraction layer reduces complexity and speeds development

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SOA Stack

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XAware and the ESB

On-ramp to ESB for information-rich messages XAware generates XML message, sends to ESB ESB passes XML message to XAware for processing

ESB handles transport & guaranteed delivery Orchestration layer (included with some ESB offerings)

Orchestrates services Data services exposed by XAware

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XAware Components

XAware Designer – Eclipse plug-in Visual drag-and-drop, wizard-based IDE that speeds the

development of XAware-powered applications XAware Engine

High-performance, scalable, dynamic data integration and data services execution engine

J2EE, Servlet, Batch, or Embedded

Adapters Provide connectivity to requested data sources and systems;

SQL, FTP, Email, SNMP, Text, RMI, Cobol Copybook, File, XSL, LDAP, Java, EJB, JMS, MQ, others…

Connectors Provides synchronous and asynchronous connectivity from

client applications to XAware-delivered services via SOAP, JMS, EJB, HTTP, HTTPS, and Java API

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XAware Metadata

Format,Rules

LogicalData set

ConnectionInformation

ClientApps

ClientApps

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Contract-First Service Design

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Deployment Environments

J2EE Application Server EAR file JBoss, BEA, WebSphere, Sun

Servlet Container WAR file Tomcat

Batch Windows & Linux command line Scheduled execution

Java API Embed XAware into another application

XAware metadata files packaged as XAware Archive file (XAR) Deployed to a server enabled with the XAware Engine

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Supporting Development, QA, and UAT Processes

ACORD

BizDocumentBizDocument BizComponentBizComponent BizDriverBizDriver

Orchestrate ConnectTransform

ACORD

XAwareDesign

Environment

ACORD



ACORD

ACORD



ACORD

Development Test Production

Visual Design• Eclipse based visual design

environment• Packaging and deployment tools

Versioning• XAware meta-components are

XML files.• Source management via

Subversion, CVS/PVCS, Rational.

• Also can be versioned in Meta-Data Repositories

Testing• Development, test and

production deployments can be pointed at specific source databases/data sets for testing.

• BizDrivers enable pointing to different data sources

XAwareRuntime

Environment

XAware Tools create meta-components:

•BizDocument

•BizComponent

•BizDriver

.XAR File

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XAware Demonstration

ACORD Policy Policy record received as structured text Party information received from database Service deployed and invoked over HTTP, SOAP

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ACORD Policy

policyFile

Policy Number

Policy COBOL Data(Copy Book)

ClientApps

ClientApps

policyFile

Party DB

PolicyGetPolicy

Insured

Message Queue

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Data Chaining

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Inbound XML Processing

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Information Exchange

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Community Contributions

Product designed to support community contributions Easy, well documented extensions to the product

Contribution opportunities Adaptor technologies to allow new data sources to participate New Eclipse Plugins for data-related features (metadata apps?) Localization

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BizView Architectural Diagram Example

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A BizView to Synchronize and Migrate Data

Business

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