DOSUG Tech Overview of XAware

XAware Technology Overview

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

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

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

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

SOA Stack

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

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

XAware Metadata Format, Rules Logical Data set Connection Information Client Apps

Contract-First Service Design

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

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

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

ACORD Policy Policy Number COBOL Data (Copy Book) Client Apps Party DB Policy GetPolicy Insured Message Queue policyFile Policy policyFile

Data Chaining

Inbound XML Processing

Information Exchange

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

BizView Architectural Diagram Example

A BizView to Synchronize and Migrate Data

DOSUG Tech Overview of XAware

by Matthew McCullough on Feb 11, 2008

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