Эдуард Долгалев Руководитель направления IBM WebSphere/SOA [email protected]
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Ready-to-Use
SOA Governance for
IBM WebSphere
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Table of Contents
1 Summary ....................................................................................................... 2
2 Introduction ................................................................................................... 3
3 Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Defined ............................................................. 5
4 Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Best Practices .................................................... 8
5 Platform Independent Governance Automation ................................................. 10
6 SOA Infrastructure Reference Model ................................................................ 12
7 Ready-to-Use SOA Governance System Elements: ............................................ 13
8 SOA Software’s Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Solution .................................... 14
9 Ready-to-Use SOA Governance for IBM WebSphere and IBM Rational .................. 16
10 About SOA Software ...................................................................................... 31
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1 Summary
SOA Software’s products provide Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Automation for IBM
WebSphere. This allows customers to confidently use IBM WebSphere products as part
of a heterogeneous enterprise SOA environment sharing services with other commercial
SOA platforms like SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, as well as RedHat and other open source
providers.
IBM WebSphere customers add SOA Software’s Ready-to-Use SOA Governance
Automation solution to the IBM WebSphere products to:
Ensure that services they identify, design and build using their WebSphere
products are relevant and consumable to applications they plan, design, build and
deploy using other technologies like Microsoft or Oracle, or buy from other
vendors like SAP.
Make services they expose from applications running on WebSphere products
visible to and compliant with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited
across other platforms; and make services they design and build using other
platforms like Microsoft and open source environments visible to and compliant
with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across their WebSphere
applications.
Promote and ensure consistent alignment between demand from service
consumers and the supply of services through Consumer Contract Provisioning.
SOA Software™ provides a Ready-to-Use solution for SOA Governance. This solution is
one suite of products, built by one development team, with the expressed goal of
automating the flow of data through the governance process and maintaining a
consistent look and feel regardless of what state of governance you are engaged in. This
“Ready-to-Use” solution is unique to SOA Software in the market, as SOA Software focus
solely on the mission of bringing “Ready-to-Use” governance to customers using IBM
WebSphere middleware stacks at the core of their SOA runtime. Many vendors provide a
menu of technologies that can be aligned to various phases of the SOA Governance life
cycle, but disparate stand-alone tools need to be integrated by you [the customer] over
an extended period of time.
SOA Software – one suite of unified governance capabilities – Ready to Use for IBM
WebSphere.
SOA Software’s platform-independent Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Automation
solution promotes the use of best-practices throughout an enterprise SOA program
regardless of where services and consumers are designed, built, deployed and operated.
Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager and Policy Manager integrate
seamlessly with development and runtime products from most commercial platforms
including IBM, SAP, Microsoft, Oracle and Serena, as well as RedHat and other open
source providers. They offer deep integration with WebSphere Lombardi Edition,
WebSphere Process Manager, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, WebSphere
DataPower SOA Appliances, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR),
WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Application Server, and IBM z/OS, as well as
the Rational suite of software development tools including ClearCase, ClearQuest,
Rational Team Concert, and RAD/RSM/RSA.
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2 Introduction
This whitepaper builds on the foundation created in SOA Software’s whitepaper “Unified
SOA Governance”, first published in December 2007. It describes how SOA Software’s
Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager and Policy Manager integrate
with a wide range of IBM WebSphere and Rational solutions to provide Ready-to-Use
SOA Governance automation capabilities, and the reasons why those capabilities are so
important.
Most customers have invested a significant amount of time and money in forging the
first iteration of their SOA architectures. They are (as expected) complex and often built
on an as needed basis. We are now at a point in the technology evolution of SOA that
many customers are looking to revamp their first pass at this agile business framework
– SOA v2.0. SOA v2.0 almost uniformly includes SOA Governance as a core
requirement. However, many vendors only provide a loosely coupled collection of
technologies that address the challenges of enterprise grade SOA governance.
Only SOA Software provides a complete – end to end – and “Ready to Use” SOA
Governance suite. Built by one team, with a common goal, common tooling and a
common look and feel, SOA Software’s SOA Governance suite is an ideal choice for IBM
WebSphere middleware customers. It offers pre-integrated components for use with
critical WebSphere technologies such as DataPower appliances, WebSphere Application
Server, WebSphere Message Broker, and others. SOA Software allows you to install the
suite and start governing your SOA architecture right away.
Some of the IBM WebSphere products include some platform-optimized SOA Governance
capabilities. This whitepaper explains what these capabilities are, and how SOA
Software’s products augment them to provide a true enterprise SOA Governance
automation solution.
This document describes the integration points and added governance capabilities for:
WebSphere Lombardi Edition - a unified business process management (BPM)
environment for collaborative process improvement
WebSphere Process Server – a high-performance business engine to help form
processes to meet business goals
WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus – provides Web services connectivity and JMS
messaging
WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances – A set of purpose-built, easy-to-deploy
network devices that simplify, help secure, and accelerate XML and Web services
deployments
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) – helps publish, find, enrich,
manage and govern SOA services
WebSphere Message Broker – provides universal connectivity and transformation in
heterogeneous IT environments
WebSphere Application Server – the foundation of the IBM® WebSphere software
platform
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IBM z/OS – many of today’s critical business applications run on z/OS
Rational Application Developer/Rational Software Modeler/Rational Software
Architect – a leading Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
Rational ClearCase – an enterprise-strength Software Configuration Management
(SCM) platform
Rational ClearQuest – IBM’s software defect tracking and change request platform
Rational Team Concert - a lean collaborative lifecycle management solution
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3 Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Defined
Ready-to-Use SOA Governance ensures the applicability, integrity and usability of a wide
range of assets through all their lifecycle stages from asset identification through
deprecation. The full lifecycle is split into planning governance, development
governance, and operational governance.
One of the key requirements of a modern SOA Governance solution is support for the full
governance life cycle. Many solutions address service development OR operational
governance – but those capabilities in isolation are not enough.
SOA Software supports all phases of the SOA Governance life cycle including service
planning, integration with development and development support tools, a full set of
operational governance, monitoring and analysis capabilities, and the ability to tie it all
together with a marketing leading collaboration portal and dashboard.
Plan, Build, Run and Share: The full SOA governance life cycle.
3.1 Planning Governance – Build the Right Things
Planning governance includes the identification analysis and modeling of candidate
services, policies, profiles, processes and information. An effective planning governance
tool manages an organization’s SOA portfolio while examining existing and planned
applications and determining which capabilities should be exposed as services, and
where applications would benefit from consuming shared services.
Planning Governance is a new area for SOA. It allows companies to build to plan, and
build to priority modeling current and desired architecture and identifying and
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prioritizing candidate services. Planning Governance solutions maximize the efficiency of
investment in SOA, solidifying the role of existing platforms as foundation service
providers.
I.T. has always struggled with balancing long term planning with addressing the
immediate and short term needs of the business, in most cases the short term
requirements take precedent over long range planning. When this is applied to
enterprise architecture, organizations end up with a bunch of services that deliver
minimal business value, instead of their goal of SOA.
Planning Governance allows organizations to identify potential services in a planned and
managed community including enterprise architects, business analysts and portfolio
managers. When utilizing planning governance, services can be proactively ‘built to plan’
rather than simply reacting and building single use services. This approach reduces the
risks of service deployment and facilitates Enterprise Architectural goals by avoiding
chaotic ‘service sprawl’.
Planning Governance solutions require integration with a wide range of existing
enterprise repositories, application portfolio management, and enterprise architecture
planning solutions, to harvest current and desired architectures. The output from the
Planning Governance process is a set of candidate services that feed into the
Development Governance process, and candidate policies feeding into the Policy
Governance process.
3.2 Development Governance – Build Things Right
Development governance marshals an asset through the development process that
typically spans the design, development, testing and staging phases of its software
development lifecycle. It typically includes a workflow mechanism to approve migration,
policy compliance validation, and a clear separation (logically, physically, or both)
between lifecycle stages. Development governance is the realm traditionally occupied
by registry and repository vendors, although it requires much stronger repository
capabilities and much broader integrations with development environments (IDEs and
SCMs tools), federation with other registries and much stronger service, standards and
taxonomy support than most repositories offer.
The Development Governance solution depends heavily on Policy Governance for
compliance policy definition, management, and validation. It uses policies to determine
the relevance, and suitability of services at each lifecycle stage, and to determine if
assets meet enterprise standards and guidelines before they can be promoted to the
next stage of the lifecycle. For example for a service to move from design to
development the enterprise may require that there is a design document in the
repository, the service has a WSDL, the services is categorized appropriately, and
perhaps even that there are registered consumers waiting for the service.
3.3 Operational Governance – Ensure What’s Built Behaves Right
Operational Governance controls the runtime aspects of SOA. It typically includes
service monitoring, security and management with a runtime policy system. Most Web
Services Management and Web Services Security vendors now position themselves as
providing Operational Governance solutions.
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The Operational Governance solution relies heavily on the Policy Governance solution for
discovery of policies for implementation and enforcement. A well architected
Operational Governance solution will fully abstract service consumers and providers from
the complexity of policy implementation and enforcement, service endpoint location,
transport, standards, message exchange pattern, and other impedances to
interoperability. It should provide agents, delegates, and a network resident
intermediary for service virtualization.
3.4 Policy Governance – Uniform Policy for All Governance Areas
Policy Governance defines and manages policies, associates them with various assets,
and validates and reports on policy compliance. It manages a wide range of different
policy types from metadata compliance policies applied in Planning and Development
Governance processes through security, reliability, and service-level policies applied
through an Operational Governance solution.
It is critical that the Policy Governance solution ensures consistent policy definition,
implementation, enforcement, validation, and audit through all stages of the lifecycle,
and across all distributed and mainframe platforms.
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4 Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Best Practices
Ready-to-Use SOA Governance promotes the core SOA governance best practices of:
4.1 Governance Automation
Governance Automation ensures scalability of enterprise processes implementing a
lifecycle management workflow to implement development approval processes,
integrated provisioning and lifecycle management, and inter-departmental contract
management and negotiation.
4.2 Uniform Policy Management
Uniform Policy Management ensures consistent policy definition, implementation,
enforcement, validation, and audit through all stages of the lifecycle, and across all
distributed and mainframe platforms. It ensures that services can be leveraged as first-
class citizens throughout an enterprise SOA by complying with enterprise policies that
are uniform across all platforms.
4.3 Metadata Federation
Metadata Federation provides seamless, heterogeneous SOA Governance and standards-
based support for governance automation (UDDIv3, WS-MEX, WS-Policy) to ensure that
governance processes are uniformly applied across all platform investments. When
metadata is federated and consistent across multiple governance platforms, the business
value of service (cost, usage, production issues) becomes visible and measurable across
the enterprise service lifecycle.
4.4 Service Virtualization
Service Virtualization provides location-transparency, service mobility, impedance
tolerance and reliable service delivery without requiring a re-platforming of existing
platforms or introducing yet another service platform to support the required solution
architecture.
4.5 Trust and Management Mediation
Trust and Management Mediation ensures interoperability across disparate partners and
platforms, trust enablement and trust mediation complementing threat prevention
systems. It provides provide last-mile security, metric collection and reporting, SLA
monitoring and management, to ensure that services are governed, managed, and
secured, and policy implementation and mediation to allow consumers to communicate
with a wide range of mission critical business services exposed from any platform.
4.6 Continuous Compliance and Validation
Continuous Compliance and Validation ensures consistent policy implementation and
enforcement across all stages of the lifecycle, preserving the fidelity of the governance
models, structures and mechanisms supporting enterprise SOA programs and ensure the
relevance, applicability and suitability of services.
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4.7 Change Impact Mitigation
Change Impact Mitigation provides change management and impact analysis processes
integrated with the governance workflow to ensure that changes to services or other
assets don’t cause major outages by breaking the consumption model.
4.8 Consumer Contract Provisioning
Consumer Contract Provisioning provides offer, request, negotiation and approval
workflows for service access, capacity, SLA and policy contracts. It ensures that the
service provides know which applications and users are consuming their services and
allows them to treat different consumers with different priorities and service levels.
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5 Platform Independent Governance Automation
Much of the benefit of SOA is derived from the promise of seamless interoperability
between platforms, with applications built using .NET and WCF consumer services
exposed from COTS, Mainframe, or Java applications. One of the core goals of SOA
Governance is to ensure that services are relevant and consumable between platforms.
As such it makes no sense to leverage governance capabilities built into the platforms
themselves, as this simple promotes silos of services within platform domains.
5.1 Platform Governance Models
Not all platforms are governable; in fact platforms fall into one of 3 categories:
Ungoverned Platforms – the purest form of Informal Governance. This often
results in “Random SOA” or “Accidental SOA”. This includes any container that
doesn’t support policy enforcement natively or with an agent
Self-Governed Platforms – a mixture of Formal and Informal. Some tasks and
activities are governed, some are not. SOA Governance is as weak as the
weakest link in the chain. This category includes containers that use their own
tooling without policy integration with a centralized enterprise SOA Governance
solution.
Governed Platforms – a real or virtual organization exists that is devoted to the
promotion of SOA programs and causes that is accepted as a fundamental part of
an SOA culture. Governed Service Platforms have:
Clear job titles / responsibility support SOA Governance activities
Supports clear separation between implementation activities and governance
activities
Provides standards-based governance integration interfaces
Ready-to-Use SOA Governance solutions integrate seamlessly with the platforms
providing varying degrees of configuration, policy implementation and enforcement,
message handling, and workflow support, largely depending on the level of
sophistication of the platform itself.
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We divide governed platforms into two categories:
5.2 Governed Service Platforms
All applications that expose and consume services at runtime are service platforms.
These include application servers like IBM WebSphere, Microsoft IIS, Oracle WebLogic,
JBoss and others; ESBs from vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, JBoss, TIBCO and
others; mainframe applications running in CICS and IMS; COTS applications like CICS;
and SaaS environments like Salesforce.com and Amazon.
As described above, Governed Service Platforms offer standards-based governance
integration interfaces, and support the concepts of governance by an external enterprise
governance system.
5.3 Governed Development Platforms
Most platform vendors provide an integrated development environment (IDE), source
code management and version control system, defect tracking/change request tooling,
and in many cases, a document management and/or asset management repository. An
Ready-to-Use SOA Governance solution can provide asset lifecycle management and
policy compliance capabilities to ensure that developed software assets (such as
services, components and applications) are appropriate and relevant to the enterprise,
and that they comply with applicable policies.
Governed Development Platform status means that the development platform integrates
with a Ready-to-Use SOA Governance solution to make and share decisions about assets
and artifacts.
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6 SOA Infrastructure Reference Model
SOA Infrastructure is the set of tools and technologies that an organization deploys to
secure and manage services and service-oriented business applications. It provides the
delivery mechanism for a comprehensive governance solution including Registry,
Repository, Management, and Security services, and intermediaries to ensure the
application and use of these services.
The SOA Infrastructure reference model shown above is published by SOA Software, the
leading provider of SOA Infrastructure software products. It provides a product and
vendor agnostic view of the concepts, components and standards that make up a
successful SOA Infrastructure.
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7 Ready-to-Use SOA Governance System Elements:
The core elements of the Ready-to-Use SOA Governance system are the Planning and
Development Repository and Registry, Policy Management System, Virtualization
System, Management and Security System, and their associated intermediaries. Also, as
described above, governance products and systems not having deep integration between
these elements would offer minimal value to an SOA implementation.
7.1 SOA Repositories
The SOA Repositories provides solutions for the governance of planning and
development assets and artifacts. Governance in this context includes registration,
lifecycle management, planning, design-time, and run-time policy invocation, and
business value visibility. The repository implements registry standards for metadata
exchange. It is the main source of SOA information for end users and applications.
7.2 SOA Policy Management System
The SOA Policy Management System provides a framework for defining and managing
policies that are enforced throughout the planning, lifecycle, and operational governance
processes. It ensures that policies are applied uniformly across all governed and
governable platforms.
7.3 SOA Registry
The SOA Registry supports the categorization, classification, tagging, and publication of
services. It provides browse and search interfaces for service discovery, a publication
interface for service registration, and a subscription interface for synchronization with
other registries and repositories.
7.4 SOA Management System
An SOA Management solution monitors and manages the reliability, availability and
performance of services.
7.5 SOA Security System
An SOA Security solution provides service and message security capabilities including
authentication (identity assertion and token exchange), authorization, privacy, non-
repudiation and audit.
7.6 SOA Intermediaries
SOA intermediaries exist in a number of forms, the most important of which are stand-
alone (proxy/router), and agent (embedded in container). Intermediaries enforce and
implement policy for Management and Security solutions. The primary role of the agent
intermediary is to ensure last-mile policy enforcement, while the primary role of the
stand-alone intermediary is to provide service virtualization to isolate consumers from
service location, policy, implementation, and change.
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8 SOA Software’s Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Solution
SOA Software builds its Integrated SOA Governance solution around its Policy
Manager™, Repository Manager™, and Service Manager™ products for SOA Policy Governance, Development Governance, and Operational Governance.
SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager™, Repository Manager™, Policy Manager™, and
Service Manager™ combine to form a comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance
Automation solution.
Portfolio Manager™ is an innovative Planning Governance product that helps ensure the
alignment of SOA Programs with strategic IT investment and business objectives and
makes sure that enterprises build the right services at the right time. It helps
customers identify candidate services and build an SOA roadmap through SOA Modeling,
Asset Identification, and a Portfolio Management process. To achieve these goals
Portfolio Manager functions as part of a Ready-to-Use SOA Governance automation suite
with seamless integration with Repository Manager™ and Policy Manager™.
Repository Manager™ provides an advanced software development asset (SDA)
repository, lifecycle management, and metadata federation solution. It governs leading
development platforms, ensuring consistent definition and management of services and
other assets across all development environments. Repository Manager supports
advanced SDA repository and governance capabilities including the ability to define and
manage custom asset and artifact types, asset relationship management, integrated
development environment (IDE) integration, and comprehensive asset federation. It
integrates seamlessly with Policy Manager where policy decisions are required in the
Development Governance process, as well as provisions service consumption
agreements made by developers to Policy Manager for further governance. Repository
Manager supports application development and architecture teams, providing a
comprehensive Development Governance solution.
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Service Manager™ automatically implements and enforces policies from Policy Manager.
It generates usage, performance and policy compliance metrics that it reports to Policy
Manager so that it can audit that policies are being enforced in a closed-loop process.
Service Manager support SOA and enterprise operational management functions,
ensuring that services are security, reliable, and meet the performance goals for each
consumer.
Policy Manager™ provides an SOA Registry/Repository and comprehensive SOA Policy
Governance solution, with powerful governance automation capabilities. Governance
automation minimizes the overhead associated with governance processes, and turns
governance from a painful workload, into a productivity tool. Policy Manager includes a
built-in policy and service metadata repository supporting its policy governance
processes. Policy Manager supports enterprise and SOA architecture functions, ensuring
consistent application of policies throughout an enterprise SOA program. Using this
solution architects, developers, security administrators, and operations managers can
define and govern policies that are applied to services throughout the appropriate stages
of their lifecycle.
Using this solution architects, developers, security administrators, and operations
managers can define and govern policies that are applied to services throughout the
appropriate stages of their lifecycle.
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9 Ready-to-Use SOA Governance for IBM WebSphere and IBM Rational
IBM offers several SOA Governance products in its SOA product portfolio. Most notable
are WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, IBM Tivoli CAM for SOA (IT CAM for
SOA), and Tivoli Security Policy Manager. These products are platform optimized for the
IBM product family, and are extended by an enterprise Ready-to-Use SOA Governance
Automation solution.
IBM customers are adding SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager,
Service Manager and Policy Manager to provide Ready-to-Use SOA Governance
Automation for their IBM platform to provide a number of solutions:
Uniform lifecycle and policy governance across existing platform investments
Ensure interoperability with other platforms
Seamless, heterogeneous SOA Governance, Security and Management
integration with IBM Middleware infrastructure
Performance and reliability management
Interoperability across disparate partners and platforms
Integrated provisioning and lifecycle management
Inter-departmental consumer contract provisioning and negotiation
Standards support for Governance automation (UDDIv3, WS-MEX)
Trust enablement and trust mediation complementing IBM’s threat prevention
systems
SOA Software’s products support and promote common Ready-to-Use SOA Governance
best practices, and enable the consistent execution of these best practices with the IBM
platform. They offer the added benefit that there is no requirement to introduce another
non-IBM platform in order to support the required architecture.
Using Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Policy Manager and Service Manager, SOA
Software certifies IBM’s products as Governed Service Platforms, or in the case of
WSRR, a Governed Service Repository. Certified Governed Service Platform status
means that customers can be confident that their platforms will preserve the fidelity of
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the governance models, structures and mechanisms supporting an enterprise SOA
program.
IBM offers products supporting numerous aspects of software development, including
software configuration management (Rational ClearCase), defect tracking and change
request management (Rational ClearQuest) and many others. IBM also provides a
leading Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) – Rational Application
Developer (RAD), providing software engineers core development tools and integrated
access to the above-mentioned underlying development systems of record. SOA
Software’s Repository Manager establishes a Governed Development Platform
environment over these and many other development systems of record. Certified
Governed Development Platform status ensures that these development systems of
record serve as coherent and consistent sources of software asset metadata and
artifacts feeding into the IT organization’s SOA development governance processes.
Repository Manager automates the gathering and collection of this information and
presents it to key SDLC stakeholders throughout the development governance lifecycle.
SOA Software’s products offer a comprehensive Ready-to-Use SOA Governance
Automation solution for IBM:
9.1 WebSphere Process Manager
From IBM’s product description: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/wps/
IBM® WebSphere® Process Manager is unified BPM platform combining the WebSphere
Process Server BPM and WebSphere Lombardi Edition, and related products. This
product is a high-performance business engine to help form processes to meet business
goals.
It enables customers to respond faster than their competitors, allowing them to provide
their customers with the service and products that differentiate them from the pack.
Process Server:
Orchestrates the assets of your business to form highly optimized and effective
processes to meet your business goals, whether you need to automate processes
in the factory, process claims and financial payments, execute an efficient supply
chain, or ensure compliance with the latest industry regulations.
Ensures interoperability and flexibility as part of your service oriented
architecture (SOA) through adoption of popular standards, such as BPEL, Web
services, JMS, XML, and many more.
Uses WebSphere Integration Developer, providing a developer experience that is
second to none. One tool, one set of skills enables you to orchestrate processes,
construct mediations between services, and truly integrate the capabilities
previously locked away in your packaged business applications.
Contains WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, which mediates disparate resources,
maximizing reuse of your assets wherever they are — irrespective of vendor,
platform, or whether they are home-grown or packaged applications.
9.1.1 Governance Automation Model
SOA Software has certified IBM WebSphere Process Server as a Governed Service
Platform. This allows customers to use WebSphere Process Server to implement and
enforce governance policies for enterprise services.
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SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager and Policy
Manager ensure that WebSphere Process Server can facilitate and benefit from the core
Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Automation best practices:
Trust & Management Mediation – provide last-mile security, metric collection and
reporting, SLA monitoring and management, to ensure that services exposed by
WebSphere Process Server are governed, managed, and secured. Provide policy
implementation and mediation to allow WebSphere Process Server to
communicate with a wide range of mission critical business services exposed
from non-IBM platforms.
Service Virtualization – conveniently make WebSphere Process Server services
available to partners and allow it to consume partner services
Governance Automation – automate the publishing of WebSphere Process Server
services, providing lifecycle workflow with approvals, collaboration services, and
consumer contract provisioning
Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and
suitability of WebSphere Process Server services
Metadata Federation - ensure that WebSphere Process Server services are visible
to, relevant, and consumable by other platforms – and make services from other
platforms visible to, relevant and consumable by WebSphere Process Server.
Automatically discover services in Process Server and publish them into Policy
Manager subject to governance policies
Change Impact Mitigation - make sure that changes to WebSphere Process
Server services don’t cause major outages by breaking consumers
Uniform Policy Management - ensure that WebSphere Process Server services
can be leveraged as first-class citizens throughout an enterprise SOA by
complying with enterprise policies that are uniform across all platforms
SOA Software provides a fully functional Agent for Process Server. The Agent deploys
into the container hosting Process Server and provides a management application, a
policy engine, and a handler mechanism. The management application monitors Process
Server’s management API for new services. When it discovers a new service, depending
on its policies it will either automatically install a Process Server primitive into the
process to intercept messages for processing by the policy engine, or simply register the
service with Policy Manager. The policy engine uses WS-MetadataExchange and WS-
Policy to discover its policies using from Policy Manager, and reports metrics, usage, and
exceptions to Policy Manager over standard-based protocols.
SOA Software also provides a fully functional Delegate in the form of a Process Server
primitive. The Delegate deploys into Process Server processes to abstract them from
the location, transport and other policy representations of consuming services.
9.2 WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
From IBM’s product description: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/wsesb/
IBM® WebSphere®Enterprise Service Bus applies Web services connectivity and JMS
messaging, improving flexibility through the adoption of service-oriented interfaces. It:
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Provides a smart approach to SOA, delivering a standards-based connectivity and
integration solution that allows you to create and deploy interactions quickly and
easily between applications and services, with a reduced number and complexity
of interfaces.
Offers easy-to-use tools that require minimal programming skills and is simple to
install, configure, build and manage.
Supports hundreds of ISV solutions via WebSphere Adapters.
Provides leadership in SOA standards for service composition, mediation, and
hosting.
Increases business agility and flexibility extending easily to a Federated ESB
model.
Re-configures dynamically to meet changing business processing loads. Provides
easy interactions with any JMS and HTTP applications.
Integrates seamlessly with the WebSphere platform as well as products within
the IBM SOA Foundation, such as IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for
SOA.
9.2.1 Governance Automation Model
WebSphere ESB provides the supporting infrastructure for Process Server, and so the
Governance Automation Model for WESB is very similar to that for Process Server.
SOA Software has certified IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus as a Governed
Service Platform. This allows customers to use WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus to
implement and enforce governance policies for enterprise Web services providing
reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process as part of their enterprise SOA.
SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager and Policy
Manager ensure that WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus can facilitate and benefit from
the core Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Automation best practices:
Uniform policy enforcement for WMB/WESB hosted services
Endpoint security without programming
Centralized PKI based identity for service providers
Trust & management mediation – provide last-mile security, metric collection and
reporting, SLA monitoring and management, to ensure that services exposed by
WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus are governed, managed, and secured.
Provide policy implementation and mediation to allow WebSphere Enterprise
Service Bus to communicate with a wide range of mission critical business
services exposed from any platform.
Service virtualization - safely make WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus services
available to partners and consume partner services
Governance Automation – automate the publishing of WebSphere Enterprise
Service Bus services, providing lifecycle workflow with approvals, collaboration
services, and consumer contract provisioning
Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and
suitability of WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus services
Metadata federation - ensure that WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus services are
visible to, relevant, and consumable by other platforms – and make services from
other platforms visible to, relevant and consumable by WebSphere Enterprise
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Service Bus. Automatically discover services in Enterprise Service Bus and
publish them into Policy Manager subject to governance policies
Change impact mitigation - make sure that changes to WebSphere Enterprise
Service Bus services don’t cause major outages by breaking consumers
Uniform policy management - ensure that WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
services can be leveraged as first-class citizens throughout an enterprise SOA by
using policies that are uniform across all platforms
SOA Software provides a fully functional Agent for WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus.
The Agent deploys into the container hosting the Enterprise Service Bus and provides a
management application, a policy engine, and a handler mechanism. The management
application monitors Enterprise Service Bus’s management API looking for new services.
When it discovers a new service it will, depending on its policies, automatically install an
Enterprise Service Bus primitive into the application to intercept messages for
processing by the policy engine. The policy engine discovers its policies using WS-
MetadataExchange and WS-Policy from Policy Manager and reports metrics, usage, and
fault data back to Policy Manager.
SOA Software also provides a fully functional Delegate in the form of an Enterprise
Service Bus primitive. The Delegate deploys into Enterprise Service Bus applications to
abstract them from the location, transport and policy complexities of consuming
services.
9.3 WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
From IBM’s product description: http://www01.ibm.com/software/integration/datapower
IBM® WebSphere® DataPower SOA Appliances represent an important element in IBM's
holistic approach to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). IBM SOA appliances are
purpose-built, easy-to-deploy network devices that simplify, help secure, and accelerate
your XML and Web services deployments while extending your SOA infrastructure. These
new appliances offer an innovative, pragmatic approach to harness the power of SOA
while simultaneously enabling you to leverage the value of your existing application,
security, and networking infrastructure investments.
DataPower appliances are rack mountable network devices capable of transforming
between disparate message formats, including binary, legacy, and XML, and providing
message routing and security. These appliances can be used for cost-effective XML
enablement of mainframes, wire speed enterprise message buses, and enterprise
application integration.
They can also be used for a comprehensive set of functions including WS-Security, XML
encryption, XML/SOAP firewall filtering, XML digital signatures, XML schema validation,
two-way SSL, XML access control, XPath, and detailed logging. The appliances come in a
variety of models including the XI50.
9.3.1 Governance Automation Model
SOA Software has certified the set of IBM® WebSphere® DataPower SOA Appliances as
Governed Service Platforms with the release of the SOA Software Policy Manager for IBM
WebSphere DataPower. This product allows customers to use the IBM® WebSphere®
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DataPower SOA Appliances to implement and enforce governance policies for enterprise
Web services.
SOA Software’s Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower ensures that IBM®
WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances can facilitate and benefit from the core Ready-
to-Use SOA Governance Automation best practices:
Automate service provisioning to DataPower
Centralized policy management and authoring
Service level monitoring, analysis and alerting
Simplified authentication & authorization through service contract management
Define central SLA policies and automatically distribute to pools of appliances
Trust & management mediation – provide, metric collection and reporting, SLA
monitoring and management, to preserve the fidelity of their governance models
and structures. Define and govern the lifecycle and mediation of virtualization
policy allowing the IBM® WebSphere® DataPower SOA Appliances to virtualize a
wide range of mission critical business services exposed from any platform.
Service virtualization – publish virtual services to the IBM® WebSphere®
DataPower SOA Appliances as part of an Ready-to-Use SOA Governance
Automation solution
Governance Automation – automate the publishing of the IBM® WebSphere®
DataPower SOA Appliance services, providing lifecycle workflow with approvals,
collaboration services, and consumer contract provisioning
Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and
suitability of services published by the IBM® WebSphere® DataPower SOA
Appliances
Metadata federation - ensure that services published to the IBM® WebSphere®
DataPower SOA Appliances are visible to, relevant, and consumable by other
platforms
Change impact mitigation - make sure that changes to services published to the
IBM® WebSphere® DataPower SOA Appliances don’t cause major outages by
breaking consumers.
Uniform policy management - ensure that the policies enforced by the IBM®
WebSphere® DataPower SOA Appliances are authored in a centralized registry
repository and uniform across all platforms including DataPower.
SOA Software’s Policy Manager for IBM WebSphere DataPower can govern the behavior
of the IBM® WebSphere® DataPower SOA Appliances by publishing virtual services to
them, and specifying policies for those virtual services. These policies are specified
using WS-Policy, and discovered using WS-MetadataExchange. The IBM® WebSphere®
DataPower SOA Appliances report metrics, usage, and fault data to Policy Manager
according to the policies specified for published services.
9.4 WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
From IBM’s product description: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/integration/wsrr/
WSRR is an industrial-strength tool that enables you to publish, find, enrich, manage
and govern services in enterprise SOA.
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Enable enterprise SOA governance of your services throughout the service
lifecycle.
Promote reuse and eliminate redundancies by increasing visibility of services,
applications and processes.
Enhance connectivity by increasing runtime flexibility of applications integrated
using the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
Optimize the use of services in SOA by exchanging rich service information with
runtime monitoring tools and operational data stores.
Enable governance and life-cycle management of your high-value applications,
such as WebSphere MQ, CICS and IMS.
Adopt SOA incrementally by using WebSphere Service Registry and Repository to
start your SOA small and grow as needed.
9.4.1 Governance Automation Model
SOA Software has certified IBM® WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository (WSRR)
as a Governed Service Repository. This allows customers to use WSRR as a federated
repository within a Ready-to-Use SOA Governance solution as part of their enterprise
SOA.
SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager and Policy Manager can ensure
that WSRR can facilitate and benefit from the lifecycle governance best practices driven
by Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Automation:
Enhance WSRR’s run time registry with unified planning, development and policy
governance
Automate the flow of service definition and policy to WSRR from multiple
environments
Integrates non-IBM technologies into service life cycle
Governance Automation – automate the publishing of the IBM® WebSphere®
enterprise services, providing lifecycle workflow with approvals, collaboration
services, and consumer contract provisioning
Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and
suitability of services published in the IBM® WebSphere® Service Registry and
Repository
Metadata federation - ensure that WebSphere services published in WSRR are
visible to, relevant, and consumable by other platforms, and that services
published by other platforms are visible to, relevant, and consumable by IBM
products via WSRR
Change impact mitigation - make sure that changes to services published in
WSRR don’t cause major outages by breaking consumers
Uniform policy management - ensure that the IBM® WebSphere® platform can be
leveraged as a first-class citizen throughout an enterprise SOA by using policies
that are uniform across all platforms distributed via WSRR
SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager and Repository Manager can federate with the IBM®
WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository. It can synchronize selected services,
WSDLs, interfaces, schemas, and taxonomies to ensure consistency between Portfolio
Manager, Repository Manager, Policy Manager and WSRR. The integration extends the
Policy Manager contract provisioning, compliance policy and workflow models to provide
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consumer contract provisioning and lifecycle governance compliance and workflow
capabilities to assets published in WSRR.
9.5 WebSphere Message Broker
From IBM’s product description:
http://www306.ibm.com/software/integration/wbimessagebroker/
IBM® WebSphere® Message Broker provides universal connectivity and transformation in
heterogeneous IT environments.
It distributes information and data generated by business events in real time to people,
applications, and devices throughout your extended enterprise and beyond. Message
Broker:
Provides a smart approach to SOA, extending the reach of your business beyond
your firewall by supporting a broad range of multiple transport protocols and data
formats
Integrates multiple applications, networks, and device types using a platform-
independent based enterprise service bus that lets you conduct business reliably
and securely
Increases business agility and flexibility, extending easily to a Federated ESB
model, while reducing development costs by separating integration logic from
applications
Improves the flow of information around the business, moving away from hard-
coded point-to-point links to more flexible distribution mechanisms such as
publish/subscribe and multi-cast
Uses a simple programming model for connectivity and mediation, including a
robust set of pre-built mediation function and ways to customize mediations
Exploits the industry-leading WebSphere MQ messaging infrastructure, and
supports transformation options with graphical mapping, Java, ESQL, XSL, and
WebSphere Transformation Extender
Delivers extensive administration and systems management facilities for
developed solutions
9.5.1 Governance Automation Model
SOA Software has certified IBM WebSphere Message Broker as a Governed Service
Platform. This allows customers to use WebSphere Message Broker to implement and
enforce governance policies for enterprise Web services.
SOA Software’s Policy Manager and Service Manager ensure that WebSphere Message
Broker can facilitate and benefit from the core Ready-to-Use SOA Governance
Automation best practices:
Uniform policy enforcement for WMB/WESB hosted services
Endpoint security without programming
Centralized PKI based identity for service providers
Trust & management mediation – provide last-mile security, metric collection and
reporting, SLA monitoring and management, to make services exposed by
WebSphere Message Broker business-class. Provide policy implementation and
mediation to allow WebSphere Message Broker to communicate with a wide
range of mission critical business services exposed from any platform.
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Service virtualization - safely make WebSphere Message Broker services available
to partners and consume partner services
Governance Automation – automate the publishing of WebSphere Message
Broker services, providing lifecycle workflow with approvals, collaboration
services, and consumer contract provisioning
Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and
suitability of WebSphere Message Broker services
Metadata federation - ensure that WebSphere Message Broker services are visible
to, relevant, and consumable by other platforms – and make services from other
platforms visible to, relevant and consumable by WebSphere Message Broker
Change impact mitigation - make sure that changes to WebSphere Message
Broker services don’t cause major outages by breaking consumers
Uniform policy management - ensure that WebSphere Message Broker services
can be leveraged as first-class citizens throughout an enterprise SOA by using
policies that are uniform across all platforms
SOA Software provides a set of custom nodes for the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit
palette. These nodes can be dragged and dropped into the appropriate points in a
process flow and provide the full functionality of the Agent for last-mile policy
enforcement, and the Delegate for first-mile policy implementation.
9.6 WebSphere Application Server
From IBM’s product description:
http://www306.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/
WebSphere® Application Server is the foundation of the IBM® WebSphere software
platform. It delivers the secure, scalable, resilient application infrastructure you need
for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). WAS allow customers to:
Simplify the way they consume WebSphere Application Server with new Feature
Packs. You can download the latest open standards and technical innovations you
need today.
Leverage the industry's premier Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) 1.4 and Web
services application platform to help build, run, integrate and manage dynamic,
On Demand business applications.
Build and deploy re-usable application services quickly and easily, with a simple
set of tools and interfaces.
Run services in a reliable, scalable, highly available, environment to ensure
business opportunities are not lost due to application downtime.
Secure applications and data with a resilient, standards-based security
infrastructure that will remove vulnerable threats while maximizing developer
productivity.
Reuse software assets and extend their reach with standards-based messaging
and the latest Web services standards, and manage applications effortlessly with
powerful, easy-to-use tools for administration and monitoring.
Grow as needs evolve, leveraging core assets and skills, with hundreds of IBM
and Business Partner products built on top of WebSphere Application Server.
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9.6.1 Governance Automation Model
SOA Software has certified IBM WebSphere® Application Server as a Governed Service
Platform. This allows customers to use WebSphere Application Server to implement and
enforce governance policies for enterprise Web services providing reporting data to
enable a closed-loop audit process as part of their enterprise SOA.
SOA Software’s Policy Manager and Service Manager ensure that WebSphere®
Application Server can benefit from the core Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Automation
best practices:
Trust & management mediation – provide last-mile security, metric collection and
reporting, SLA monitoring and management, to make services exposed by
applications running in WebSphere Application Server business-class. Provide
policy implementation and mediation to allow applications running in WebSphere
Application Server to communicate with a wide range of mission critical business
services exposed from any platform.
Service virtualization - allow applications running in WebSphere Application
Server available to safely expose services to partners and consume partner
services
Governance Automation – automate the publishing of services exposed by
applications running in WebSphere Application Server, providing lifecycle
workflow with approvals, collaboration services, and consumer contract
provisioning
Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and
suitability of services exposed and consumed by applications running in
WebSphere Application Server
Metadata federation - ensure that services exposed by applications running in
WebSphere Application Server are visible to, relevant, and consumable by other
platforms – and make services from other platforms visible to, relevant and
consumable by applications running in WebSphere Application Server.
Automatically discover services in exposed by WebSphere Application Server
applications and publish them into Policy Manager subject to governance policies
Change impact mitigation - make sure that changes to services exposed by
applications running in WebSphere Application Server don’t cause major outages
by breaking consumers
Uniform policy management - ensure that services exposed and consumed by
applications running in WebSphere Application Server are enterprise SOA first-
class citizens by using policies that are uniform across all platforms
Rogue Service Discovery – automatically discover services deployed into
WebSphere Application Server to prevent the undetected deployment of rogue
services that have intentionally (or unintentionally) bypassed the service lifecycle
publication and consumer contract provisioning governance processes
SOA Software provides a fully functional Agent for WebSphere Application Server. The
Agent deploys as an application into the container providing a management application,
a policy engine, and a handler mechanism. The management application monitors
WebSphere Application Server’s management API looking for new services. When it
discovers a new service it will, depending on its policies, automatically install an
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appropriate handler (JAXRPC or servlet filter) into the application to intercept messages
for processing by the policy engine. The policy engine discovers its policies using WS-
MetadataExchange and WS-Policy from Policy Manager and reports metrics, usage, and
fault data back to Policy Manager.
SOA Software also provides a fully functional delegate in the form of an AXIS pivot
handler and a Java SDK. The delegate deploys into WebSphere Application Server
applications to abstract them from the location, transport and policy complexities of
consuming services.
9.7 IBM z/OS
From IBM’s product description: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/overview/
z/OS is a highly secure, scalable, high-performance enterprise operating system on
which to build and deploy Internet and Java-enabled applications, providing a
comprehensive and diverse application execution environment.
Many of the world’s largest companies rely on z/OS for core enterprise computing and
data management. A lot of these companies will make their first steps to SOA by
exposing business logic from z/OS as Web services.
Once Y2K came and went without a computing apocalypse, companies with a significant
commitment to mainframe computing (Gartner defines a significant commitment as
more than 1000 MIPS) changed their focus from moving applications away from the
mainframe, to finding ways to better leverage the security, stability, and performance of
their mainframe environments. At the same time these companies began to face the
challenge of figuring out how to share business logic and data between the mainframe
and their emerging distributed computing environments. SOA and Web services provide
an ideal solution. Companies can expose core data and transaction services from the
mainframe, and can allow mainframe applications to consume services from the
distributed world.
Of course, with this evolution to service-oriented computing on the mainframe comes a
set of governance requirements to ensure that mainframe applications can preserve the
fidelity of enterprise governance models and structures, and that enterprise SOA can
preserve the integrity and fidelity of the mainframe applications’ governance models and
structures.
9.7.1 Governance Automation Model
SOA Software’s SOLA product turns z/OS with CICS and/or IMS into a Governed Service
Platform. This allows customers to expose and consume services from CICS and/or IMS
applications using SOLA to implement and enforce governance policies for enterprise
Web services providing reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process as part of
their enterprise SOA.
SOLA integrates with SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service
Manager and Policy Manager to ensure that z/OS and CICS and/or IMS can benefit from
the core Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Automation best practices:
Trust & management mediation – SOLA provides last-mile security, metric
collection and reporting, SLA monitoring and management, to make services
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exposed by z/OS and CICS and/or IMS applications business-class. It provides
policy implementation and mediation to allow these applications to communicate
with a wide range of mission critical business services exposed from any
platform.
Service virtualization - allow z/OS and CICS and/or IMS applications to safely
expose services to partners and consume partner services
Governance Automation – automate the publishing of services exposed by z/OS
and CICS and/or IMS applications, providing lifecycle workflow with approvals,
collaboration services, and consumer contract provisioning
Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and
suitability of services exposed and consumed by z/OS and CICS and/or IMS
applications
Metadata federation - ensure that services exposed by z/OS and CICS and/or IMS
applications are visible to, relevant, and consumable by other platforms – and
make services from other platforms visible to, relevant and consumable by z/OS
and CICS and/or IMS applications. Automatically discover services in exposed by
z/OS and CICS and/or IMS applications and publish them into Policy Manager
subject to governance policies
Change impact mitigation - make sure that changes to services exposed by
applications running in z/OS and CICS and/or IMS don’t cause major outages by
breaking consumers
Uniform policy management - ensure that services exposed and consumed by
applications running in z/OS and CICS and/or IMS are enterprise SOA first-class
citizens by using policies that are uniform across all platforms
SOA Software’s SOLA acts as a fully functional Agent for services exposed by z/OS and
CICS and/or IMS. SOLA automatically registers the services it creates in Policy Manager
and leverages Policy Manager’s lifecycle and provisioning workflow capabilities. Its
policy engine discovers policies using WS-MetadataExchange and WS-Policy from Policy
Manager and reports metrics, usage, and fault data back to Policy Manager.
SOLA also includes a fully functional delegate for z/OS and CICS and/or IMS applications
to abstract them from the location, transport and policy complexities of consuming
services.
9.8 IBM Rational ClearCase
From IBM’s product description http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/clearcase/:
IBM® Rational® ClearCase® offers complete software configuration
management
An industry-leading solution that provides sophisticated version control, workspace
management, parallel development support and build auditing to improve productivity.
Integration with leading IDEs allows you to work in your preferred environment
Transparent real-time access to files and directories virtually anywhere in your
organization
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Sophisticated branching and graphical merge tools enable concurrent access and
efficient use of time
Lightweight, feature-rich clients allow you to work locally or remotely
Support for open source environments provides added workspace flexibility
Seamless integration with IBM Rational ClearQuest® offers streamlined defect
tracking for better team coordination and tracking of project progress
Integration with IBM Rational Build Forge® automates build tasks and reduces build
time Operating systems supported: AIX, HP Unix, Linux, Other Unix, Sun Solaris, Windows
9.8.1 Governance Automation Model
SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager discovers existing assets from, and Repository
Manager establishes development governance automation capabilities over ClearCase,
enabling rule-based extraction of software asset artifacts and metadata from ClearCase-
controlled directories and files.
SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager and Repository Manager ensure that IBM Rational
ClearCase customers can benefit from the following core Ready-to-Use SOA Governance
Automation best practices:
Governance Automation – automate the publishing of the IBM® Rational®
ClearCase managed content as software assets, providing lifecycle workflow with
approvals, collaboration services, and consumer contract provisioning
Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and
suitability of software assets and artifacts stored in IBM® Rational® ClearCase
Metadata federation - ensure that software assets and artifacts stored in
ClearCase are visible to, relevant, and consumable by other platforms
Change impact mitigation - make sure that changes to software assets whose
artifacts are stored in ClearCase don’t cause major outages by breaking
consumers
Uniform policy management - ensure that IBM® ClearCase is treated as a first-
class citizen throughout an enterprise SOA by applying development policies to
files and metadata stored within ClearCase
9.9 IBM Rational ClearQuest
From IBM’s product description http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/clearquest/
IBM® Rational® ClearQuest® offers comprehensive software change
management
It provides defect tracking, process automation, reporting and lifecycle traceability for
better visibility and control of the software development lifecycle.
Real-time reporting and process enforcement improve project visibility and control
Automated workflows and e-mail notifications enhance team communication and
coordination
Test management unifies development and testing activities, from planning through
results, for improved software quality
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Access control, electronic signatures, repeatable processes and audit trails simplify
compliance management
Web interface allows easy access from virtually anywhere
Integration with requirements, development, build, test, deployment and portfolio
management tools facilitates rapid response to change Operating systems supported: AIX, HP Unix, Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows
9.9.1 Governance Automation Model
SOA Software’s Repository Manager establishes development governance automation
over the extended software configuration management model presented by IBM Rational
ClearCase and ClearQuest UCM. UCM best practices provide a controlled and traceable
environment for development file modification; these modifications in turn are exposed
to enterprise development governance processes via Repository Manager, enabling rule-
based extraction of software asset artifacts and metadata from ClearCase-controlled
directories and files and presentation of associated ClearQuest changesets specifying the
rationale for changes to these artifacts and metadata.
SOA Software’s Repository Manager ensures that IBM Rational ClearCase customers can
benefit from the following core Ready-to-Use SOA Governance Automation best
practices:
Governance Automation – automate the publishing of the IBM® Rational®
ClearCase and ClearQuest managed content as software assets, providing
lifecycle workflow with approvals, collaboration services, and consumer contract
provisioning
Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and
suitability of software assets and artifacts stored in IBM® Rational® ClearCase and
whose changes are gated by ClearQuest
Metadata federation - ensure that software assets and artifacts stored in
ClearCase and associated changesets stored in ClearQuest are visible to,
relevant, and consumable by other platforms
Change impact mitigation - make sure that changes to software assets whose
artifacts are stored in ClearCase don’t cause major outages by breaking
consumers
Uniform policy management - ensure that IBM® ClearCase is treated as a first-
class citizen throughout an enterprise SOA by applying development policies to
files and metadata stored within ClearCase
9.10 IBM Rational Application Developer
From IBM’s product description
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/application
IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software extends
Eclipse with visual construction development.
Helps Java™ developers rapidly design, develop, assemble, test, profile and deploy high
quality Java/J2EE™, Portal, Web, Web services and SOA applications.
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Increases productivity and shortens the development and test cycles as it extends
the Eclipse 3.2 environment.
Features a flexible installation process designed to provide developers with only the
functions they need.
Is integrated and optimized for IBM WebSphere® Application Server and IBM
WebSphere Portal Server products and includes test environments for these
products.
Shortens the Java learning curve through visual design, with auto-synchronized code
modeling.
Uses robust capabilities to create SOA applications, including the ability to
automatically create necessary SOA components such as WSDL and WSIL files.
Applies visual portal development techniques to speed development.
Update! version 7.0.0.3 provides features for assembling and deploying reliable,
asynchronous, secure, and interoperable Java Web services for application
components. Operating systems supported: Linux, Windows
9.10.1 Governance Automation Model
Through its Eclipse-based plug-in, SOA Software’s Repository Manager simplifies the
process of consuming software assets governed via an enterprise’s development
governance processes. When combined with IBM Rational ClearCase, Repository
Manager allows developers to import symlink-based references from ClearCase
controlled artifacts into ClearCase-controlled RAD projects, thereby ensuring that such
projects always have access to the correct artifact instance during software development
activities.
SOA Software’s Repository Manager and its RAD plug-in ensures that IBM Rational
Application Developer customers can benefit from the following core Ready-to-Use SOA
Governance Automation best practices:
Governance Automation – automate the consumption approval of Repository
Manager controlled software assets through wizard-based lifecycle workflow with
approvals, collaboration services, and consumer contract provisioning
Metadata federation - ensure that software assets and artifacts governed by
Repository Manager are visible to, relevant, and consumable by Rational
Application Developer users
Change impact mitigation – through Asset Relationship Visualization, make sure
that changes to software assets don’t cause major outages by breaking
consumers
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10 About SOA Software
SOA Software is a leading provider of unified SOA governance, cloud and enterprise API
Management products that enable organizations to successfully plan, build, and run
enterprise services and open APIs. The world’s largest companies including Bank of
America, Pfizer, and Verizon use SOA Software solutions to transform their business.
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