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By webMethods_KB
EAI Architecture Concepts
Introduction
EAI IT Landscape
Integration Evolution
Basic Concepts
Messaging
Message Processing
Message Delivery
Message Sharing
Higher Concepts
BPM
BAM
Landscape
Legacy Systems
Data Sources Packaged Apps
Value Chain Bespoke Apps
Extranets
Intranets
Internet
Transactions Networks
Customers
Evolution Of Integration
Flat files
Screen Scraping
API based
Evolution Of Integration
Loosely coupled
Message Oriented
Business Logic Layer
Intelligent routing
Transformation
Transactions
Evolution Of Integration
Platform Agnostic
Standards Based
Distributed
Basic Concepts Of Architecture
Messaging
Message Processing
Synchronous Processing
Asynchronous Processing enables applications to immediately return to
normal processing after generating request without having to wait for
Basic Concepts Of Architecture
Message Delivery
Volatile fast
Messages are stored in memory
Messages are lost if the system shuts down
Guaranteed slower
Messages are stored in a persistent queue
Messages are guaranteed to reach to its destination regardless of
network reliability, target systems availability, bandwidth limitations
Basic Concepts Of Architecture
Message Sharing - Publish and Subscribe
Sending documents out for potential subscription (do not need to know
who receives them)
Published documents are routed to the subscribed clients
When a client publishes a document, a subscription pointer to the
document will be placed in the inbound queues of all subscribers
Each subscriber uses its pointer to extract a copy of the document from
the queue
There can be multiple subscribers to single published message
Bus Architecture
Components
Bus Message/Service Bus (Backbone)
Service Nodes - Enterprise Applications
CRM
ERP
Mainframe/Unix Applications
B2B Partner Applications
Bus Real-time Message Transport
Adapter - Connectivity to Applications
Characteristics
Minimize point-to-point integration
Complex administration & management
Better scalability and performance.
Process Simulator enables the process analyst to perform as-if scenarios and to
find out the bottle-necks in the process before deploying the process.
Process Executor is the Engine which manages the behavior ( persistency, integrity
and flow ) of the Process at run-time.
Process Facilitator is the work-portal and it provides the interface for human
interaction
Process Monitor collects data on each process instance and allows the Business
Owners to keep an eye on the Business Processes.
Process Analyzer enables the business process / function owners to create multi-
dimensional enterprise dash-board.
BPM
Discover
Analyze
Designer
Improve Simulator
Implement Developer
Monitor Control
Executor
Analyzer
Facilitator
How it works ?
BAM
BAM defines the concept of providing real-time access to critical business
performance indicators to improve the speed and effectiveness of
business operations.
Reverse Proxy Server Use only for routing inbound documents. No need
to open internal firewall ports to DMZ.
Send outbound documents directly to Partner location (or DMZ file server
for partners to pick up)
Reverse Proxy Server No need for IS clustering as the reverse proxy
servers only route the documents to internal IS. Use pseudo-clustering