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References :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_application_integration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture
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Self-administration of system operations by development teams
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Businesses are fully aware that business intelligence (BI) is no longer a luxury item but a critical requirement to optimize corporate profits and performance.
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Mis 20021241104 20021241103_20021241148_20021241155_20021241149_eai and flexi...Shaunak Gujjewar
The above PPT was created as a part of college presentation on the topic of Enterprise Application Integration & Flexibility with Service-oriented Architecture.
References :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_application_integration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050921000375
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provides software application as Web based delivery to server many customers. This sharing of
infrastructure and application provided by Saas has a great benefit to customers, since it reduces costs,
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generally developed with standardized software functionalities to serve as many customers as
possible.However many customers ask to change the standardized provided functions according to their
specific business needs, and this can be achieve through the configuration and customization provided by
the SaaS vendor.Allowing many customers to change software configurations without impacting others
customers and with preserving security and efficiency of the provided services, becomes a big challenge to
SaaS vendors, who are oblige to design new strategies and architectures. Multi-tenancy (MT) architectures
allow multiple customers to be consolidated into the same operational system without changing anything in
the vendor source code. In this paper, we will present how the configuration can be done on an ERP web
application in a Multi-Tenancy SaaS environment
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provides software application as Web based delivery to server many customers. This sharing of
infrastructure and application provided by Saas has a great benefit to customers, since it reduces costs,
minimizes risks, improves their competitive positioning, as well as seeks out innovative. SaaS application is
generally developed with standardized software functionalities to serve as many customers as
possible.However many customers ask to change the standardized provided functions according to their
specific business needs, and this can be achieve through the configuration and customization provided by
the SaaS vendor.Allowing many customers to change software configurations without impacting others
customers and with preserving security and efficiency of the provided services, becomes a big challenge to
SaaS vendors, who are oblige to design new strategies and architectures. Multi-tenancy (MT) architectures
allow multiple customers to be consolidated into the same operational system without changing anything in
the vendor source code. In this paper, we will present how the configuration can be done on an ERP web
application in a Multi-Tenancy SaaS environment.
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1. Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA)
Does It Deliver On It’s Integration Promise?
Ahmed Aboulnaga, Apurva Singh
Raastech, Inc.
USA
Keywords:
Oracle, Application Integration Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, AIA, SOA
Introduction
A typical Information Technology department in an organization undergoes many transformations in
response to the needs of the business which drives it. In a business looking to stay ahead of its
competition, change is the only constant. What we see as a result of such an evolution is the existence
of disparate enterprise-class IT systems which have been inducted into the organization at various
points in time to satisfy the most important business requirements at the time.
These systems could be based on different platforms, procured from different vendors, or custom built.
Given the torrid pace of globalization, some of these systems maybe located in different geographies
and with outside partners. No matter how good a system may work standalone, it is rarely designed
with integration in mind.
Enterprise integration is the task of making disparate systems work together to produce a unified set of
functionality.
Integration is important because if applications are to continuously deliver value in the face of ever
changing business landscape, they cannot live isolated from each other. We need techniques that allow
us to take applications that were never designed to interoperate and break down the stovepipes so we
can gain a greater benefit that the individual applications can offer us. It also allows us to deliver
substantial value to the business by integrating functionality into more useful services.
Various technologies have been around that promise to solve the integration puzzle. Today we will
look at one of such technology, Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture (AIA), designed to solve
the problem of integrating the various disparate Oracle applications that have mushroomed in the
enterprises all around the world.
Integration Patterns
If we could anticipate our future business requirements and somehow designed a system which could
incorporate all future requirements as they came up, we wouldn’t be talking about integration. The
stark reality, however, is that we almost always can’t anticipate our future business or integration
needs. This has given rise to multiple classes of enterprise applications and dozens of different ways to
integrate them.
2. Each integration pattern learns from the previous one and aims to make it better by solving the
problem in a more clever way. We briefly talk about the two common integration patterns followed by
an explanation of the integration pattern utilized by Oracle Application Integration Architecture.
Point-to-Point Integrations
Interfaces contain the logic for connectivity with the source applications, message transformation, and
connectivity with target applications. In the typical point-to-point integration, the source and target
applications are tightly coupled. This offers limited scalability, as adding a new application will almost
always result in the development of a new interface as shown in Illustration 1.
Illustration. 1: Point-to-point integrations lead to tight coupling
SOA Integrations
With the introduction of Service Oriented Architecture, otherwise known as SOA, integrations are
developed with loose coupling in mind. Source interfaces are built independent of target applications.
This allows the ability to scale and add new target interfaces with limited changes to the existing
integrations. Illustration 2 demonstrates how adding a new source application does not change the
interface to the target application.
Illustration. 2: SOA developed integrations lead to a higher degree of reuse
Oracle Application Integration Architecture
Through organic growth and multiple acquisitions, Oracle has become an enterprise application
powerhouse. Hundreds of thousands of organizations across the globe have multiple Oracle
applications running. Almost all of them have a business need to integrate them at the data, functional,
process or UI level.
As is to be expected, they were approaching this problem to the best of their abilities. But almost of
them were reinventing the wheel, so to speak. Oracle however, noticed a pattern in what was going on
and in that, an opportunity to standardize the process of integration amongst various Oracle
applications.
3. It launched Oracle Application Integration Architecture.
The left figure in Illustration 3 shows the standard point-to-point integrations among multiple
applications. Each integration is built separately, allows for limited reusability, consists of multiple
transformations, and more seriously, as the number of applications grow, the points of connection
grow exponentially, making it much more difficult and more expensive to maintain.
Illustration. 3: Illustration of point-to-point integrations (left) compared to AIA-based integrations (right)
The figure on the right of Illustration 3 demonstrates how, by leveraging AIA, which is based on true
Service Oriented Architecture concepts, interfaces can be reused, the number of transformation
reduced, and overall maintenance is reduced.
Oracle AIA is not a novel concept. It is merely a formalization of an observed integration pattern and a
set of best practices and frameworks, which if adhered to, promise to make integration of Oracle
applications easier and more straightforward. The main components of Oracle AIA include:
1. Process Integration Packs (PIPs)
2. Enterprise Business Objects (EBO)
3. Development Methodology
4. Error Handling Framework
5. Composite Application Validation System (CAVS)
6. Other tools and features (e.g., Project Lifecycle Workbench, PIP Auditor, etc.)
These will be discussed in varying detail in the remainder of this paper.
From an architectural standpoint, the underlying J2EE application server is usually Oracle WebLogic
Server, over which Oracle SOA Suite is installed. The AIA Foundation Pack is built and installed over
Oracle SOA Suite, in which pre-built integrations, otherwise known as PIPs, are based on the AIA
Foundation Pack.
4. Illustration. 4: High-level AIA architectural framework
Enterprise Business Objects – The Canonical Data Model
One of the more valuable components included with the AIA Foundation Pack are EBOs, or
Enterprise Business Objects. EBOs are purely canonical data model representations. Companies often
spend many months just trying to agree on a corporate data standard to represent their key business
objects. For example, as shown in Illustration 5, applications A, B, and C, may have different internal
representations of a customer. By leveraging the Customer Party EBO, which is essentially a superset
of customer elements, the source application is responsible for publishing as much information to the
EBO as possible. The integration will transform this data from the EBO to the format of the target
systems.
Illustration. 5: Understanding the usage of the canonical data model, or EBO (Enterprise Business Object)
EBOs are based on the Open Applications Group content known as OAGIS and have been extended to
incorporate best-of-breed attributes. They are designed with extensibility in mind, and eliminates the
need to comprehensively analyze your environment to determine a common message format.
From a technical standpoint, EBOs are merely XML schemas (i.e., xsd files). Example of some Oracle
AIA EBOs include:
BankAccount
5. CurrencyExchange
CustomerParty
Invoice
Item
Location
PurchaseOrder
The AIA Development Methodology
In order to promote loose coupling between applications and increase the reusability of the
integrations, AIA proposes a methodology to follow when developing custom integrations. This
methodology is designed to decouple the source and target applications. Thus, if a change is made to
the target application, it is virtually unknown to the source. Updates to any application requires little to
no changes to your integrations as a result. PIPs, which are essentially pre-built integrations from
Oracle, are developed using this methodology.
Illustration. 6: Demonstrating the Oracle AIA development methodology
In the illustration above, the end-to-end integration is separated into 3 separated components. The
Requestor ABCS, which is tied to the source application, the Provider ABCS, which is tied to the
target application, and the EBS (Enterprise Business Service), which is the router in between.
As shown in the illustration, the Requestor ABCS transforms the custom message (ABM) into the
common canonical format (EBM). The EBS, shown in the middle, routes to the appropriate target
application. The Provider ABCS accepts the message in the common canonical format and transforms
it into the target applications custom format.
AIA Error Handling Framework
The AIA Foundation Pack also delivers and error handling framework. This is detailed in various
Oracle documentation, but in summary, it can capture errors, notify on these errors, and provide
workflow processes surrounding the management and assignment of these errors. The error handling
framework is used by PIPs and can be used by custom SOA integrations as well. Via the BPM
worklist application shown in Illustration 7, errors can be claimed, escalated, and delegated to users,
such as the Tier 2 help desk.
6. Illustration. 7: Screenshot of the BPM worklist to claim errors captured by the AIA Error Handling Framework
Composite Application Validation System (CAVS)
The Composite Application Validation System, or CAVS, is a testing tool delivered with the Oracle
AIA Foundation Pack. It is a framework to test integration of AIA services. CAVS provides test
initiators that simulate web service invocations and simulators that simulate service endpoints.
Illustration. 8: CAVS (Composite Validation Application System) usage
This becomes valuable when the target system may be unavailable. By leveraging the CAVS
simulator, developers can continue testing without being hindered by the unavailability of the target
application. However, this is somewhat limited as responses are hardcoded. Thus, the CAVS simulator
is good for binding tests, but not necessarily data validation tests.
The CAVS test definition can simulate web service invocations, similar to tools such as SoapUI.
Other AIA Foundation Pack Features and Capabilities
7. The Oracle AIA Foundation Pack delivers additional features such as the Project Lifecycle
Workbench, the PIP Auditor, open APIs, and much more.
For example, functional designs are created to specify requirements that need to be implemented for
an integration project. The Project Lifecycle Workbench is used to perform functional decompositions
to break down overall projects into business tasks.
Illustration. 9: Screenshot of the AIA Project Lifecycle Workbench ‘Add Project’ page
Truth Meter
At DOAG Applications 2011, Raastech presented use cases for two large customers who used various
features of Oracle Application Integration Architecture, and the successes and challenges faced by
each in their massive integration implementations. In addition, Raastech conducted a survey with four
leading Oracle AIA Solution Architects, one a leading architect for a global SOA implementation, two
architects are leading and well known Oracle SOA and AIA consultants with experience supporting
numerous enterprise integration implementations, and the last a senior integration architect from
Oracle Consulting Services. The survey was conducted to determine the truth in statements made by
Oracle in regards to what AIA can deliver, based on real world implementation experience.
The results are summarized in the Illustration 10 below.
8. Illustration. 10: The Oracle AIA Truth Meter – based on results from 4 leading Oracle AIA Architects
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