Bea WebLogic Integration

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Bea WebLogic Integration

• Guido Campani
• senior systems engineer
• guido.campani_at_bea.com

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Application Infrastructure Basics
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Bea WebLogic Platform
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Value of IntegrationBusiness Process Management

• Integration Activities
• Manage processes across multiple systems
• Centralize business process management and
  automation across the extended enterprise
• Business Value
• Shorter process resolution time
• Greater visibility to business processes
• Quicker response to business changes
• Automation, increased profitability and ROI

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Business Process Management Technical Requirements

• Requirements for BPM
• Ability to model sophisticated business behavior
• Design and monitor run-time interaction with
  business processes
• Manage processes in real-time
• Easy to use design tools
• Ability to handle exceptions
• Supports XML messaging
• Capable of human interaction
• Evaluate complex decision logic
• Based on open standards

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Business Process ManagementBEA Product Overview

• Process Definition
• Capture the definition of the business process
• De-couple business logic from application logic
• Reuse process components
• Process Execution
• Manage the execution of workflow processes in an
  operational environment
• Proactively drive information and tasks to
  applications
• Process Monitoring
• Monitor the status of processes and dynamically
  configure the runtime controller
• Collect metrics
• Provide instant status reports

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BPM Studio - Process Definition

• Process Design Studio
• Define tasks and dependencies (conditions, joins)
• Define actual behavior of a task
• Manipulate task and workflow states
• Integrate (send XML on JMS, call EJB, call Java
  class)
• Miscellaneous (Send e-mail, evaluate
  condition/expression)

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BPM Studio - Process Monitoring

• Monitoring and Reporting
• Instance monitoring
• Workload monitoring
• Statistical monitoring

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How It WorksDetermining Deliver Date (Example)

• Start RM Delivery Date Process

Raw Material (RM) Expected Delivery Date Business
Process
BPM

• Request delivery date from partner

• Partner transmits expected date

• Expected ship date received

• Ship date sent to ERP system

External Business Process

• ERP updated confirmation sent

• Confirmation received

InvokeEIS Service

• Real-time
• Automated
• Integrated

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WebLogic Integration BPM System Architecture
Plug-In Framework
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WebLogic Workshop 7.0
BEA WebLogic Workshop is an integrated
development framework that empowers all
application developers not just J2EE experts
to rapidly create, test, and deploy
enterprise-class Web Service applications on the
BEA WebLogic Platform.

• Visual development environment
• Easy development of J2EE applications
• DragDrop to use external resources (controls)
• JMS, DB, EJB, Web Services are all Controls
• Creates JWS editable files (Jbuilder compatible)