DOSUG Tech Overview of XAware
- 2. Presenter Kirstan Vandersluis Founder, Chief Science Officer at XAware XAware Project Leader
- 3. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. 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
- 6. SOA Stack
- 7. 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
- 8. 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
- 9. XAware Metadata Format, Rules Logical Data set Connection Information Client Apps
- 11. 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
- 12. Supporting Development, QA, and UAT Processes XAware Design Environment 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 XAware Runtime Environment XAware Tools create meta-components: BizDocument BizComponent BizDriver .XAR File
- 13. XAware Demonstration ACORD Policy Policy record received as structured text Party information received from database Service deployed and invoked over HTTP, SOAP
- 14. ACORD Policy Policy Number COBOL Data (Copy Book) Client Apps Party DB Policy GetPolicy Insured Message Queue policyFile Policy policyFile
- 15. Data Chaining
- 18. 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
- 19. BizView Architectural Diagram Example
- 20. A BizView to Synchronize and Migrate Data