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Unified SOA Governance for the JBoss Enterprise

SOA Platform

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Table of Contents

1 Summary ...................................................................................................... 3

2 Introduction ................................................................................................... 4

3 Unified SOA Governance Defined ...................................................................... 5

1.1 Planning Governance – Build the Right Things .............................................. 5

1.2 Development Governance – Build Things Right ............................................ 6

1.3 Operational Governance – Ensure What’s Built Behaves Right ........................ 6

1.4 Policy Governance – Uniform Policy for All Governance Areas ......................... 6

4 Unified SOA Governance Best Practices ............................................................. 8

1.5 Governance Automation ............................................................................ 8

1.6 Uniform Policy Management ...................................................................... 8

1.7 Metadata Federation ................................................................................. 8

1.8 Service Virtualization ................................................................................ 8

1.9 Trust and Management Mediation ............................................................... 8

1.10 Continuous Compliance and Validation ..................................................... 8

1.11 Change Impact Mitigation ....................................................................... 9

1.12 Consumer Contract Provisioning .............................................................. 9

5 Platform Independent Governance Automation .................................................. 10

1.13 Platform Governance Models .................................................................. 10

1.14 Governed Service Platforms ................................................................... 11

1.15 Governed Development Platforms .......................................................... 11

6 SOA Infrastructure Reference Model ................................................................ 12

7 Unified SOA Governance System Elements: ...................................................... 13

1.16 SOA Repositories.................................................................................. 13

1.17 SOA Policy Management System ............................................................ 13

1.18 SOA Registry ....................................................................................... 13

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1.19 SOA Management System ..................................................................... 13

1.20 SOA Security System ............................................................................ 13

1.21 SOA Intermediaries .............................................................................. 13

8 SOA Software’s Unified SOA Governance Solution.............................................. 14

9 Unified Governance for JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform ....................................... 16

1.22 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform ...................................................... 16

1.23 JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (including ESB) ........................................ 18

1.24 JBoss jBPM .......................................................................................... 20

10 About SOA Software ...................................................................................... 23

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1 Summary

SOA Software’s products provide Unified Governance Automation for the JBoss

Enterprise SOA Platform. This allows customers to confidently use JBoss products as

part of a heterogeneous enterprise SOA environment sharing services with other

commercial SOA platforms like Microsoft, IBM WebSphere, SAP NetWeaver, BEA, and

Oracle, as well as other open source providers.

• Ensure that services they identify, design and build using JBoss are relevant to

and consumable by applications they design, build and deploy using other

platforms like SAP and IBM.

• Make services they expose from applications running on the JBoss Enterprise SOA

Platform 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 SAP and open source environments visible to and compliant

with enterprise policies defined, enforced and audited across their JBoss

applications.

• Promote, ensure and formalize consistent alignment between demand from

service consumers and the supply of services through Consumer Contract

Provisioning and Enterprise Service Portfolio Management.

SOA Software’s platform-independent Integrated SOA Governance Automation solution

promotes the use of best-practices throughout an enterprise SOA program regardless of

where services and consumers are planned, designed, built, deployed and operated.

SOA Software’s Solutions offer deep integration with the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform .

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2 Introduction

This whitepaper builds on the foundation created in SOA Software’s whitepaper

“Integrated SOA Governance”, published in December 2007. It describes how SOA

Software’s Policy Manager, Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager and Service Manager

products integrate with a the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to provide Integrated SOA

Governance automation capabilities, and the reason why those capabilities are so

important.

JBoss does not currently offer any platform-optimized SOA Governance capabilities,

choosing instead to leverage products like SOA Software’s to provide a true enterprise

SOA Governance automation solution.

This document describes the integration points and added governance capabilities for

these JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform components:

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform – a market-leading platform for innovative

and scalable Java applications

JBoss ESB – provides Web services connectivity with JMS messaging

JBoss jBPM – an open source business process management solution

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3 Unified SOA Governance Defined

Unified 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, lifecycle governance, and operational

governance.

1.1 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

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’

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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.

1.2 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 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.

1.3 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.

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.

1.4 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

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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 Unified SOA Governance Best Practices

Unified SOA Governance promotes the core SOA governance best practices of:

1.5 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.

1.6 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.

1.7 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.

1.8 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.

1.9 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.

1.10 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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1.11 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.

1.12 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.

1.13 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

Unified 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:

1.14 Governed Service Platforms

All applications that expose and consume services at runtime are service platforms.

These include application services like IBM WebSphere, Microsoft IIS, Oracle/BEA

WebLogic, JBoss and others; ESBs from vendors including IBM, Microsoft Oracle/BEA,

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.

1.15 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

Unified 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 an Unified 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. For more information see SOA Software’s whitepaper –

“The SOA Infrastructure Reference Model,” published in May 2006.

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7 Unified SOA Governance System Elements:

The core elements of the Unified 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.

1.16 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.

1.17 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.

1.18 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.

1.19 SOA Management System

An SOA Management solution monitors and manages the reliability, availability and

performance of services.

1.20 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.

1.21 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 Unified 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 unified 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 Unified Governance for JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform

JBoss does not focus on SOA Governance. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform leverages

and is extended by an enterprise SOA Governance Automation solution.

JBoss customers are adding SOA Software’s Policy Manager, Portfolio Manager,

Repository Manager and Service Manager products to provide Unified SOA Governance

Automation for their Enterprise SOA solutions to provide a number of solutions:

• Portfolio management of enterprise services regardless of delivery platform

• Uniform lifecycle and policy governance across existing platform investments

• Lifecycle Management workflow to implement building permit process

• Ensure interoperability with other platforms

• Seamless, heterogeneous SOA Governance, Security and Management

integration with JBoss 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

SOA Software’s products support and promote common Unified SOA Governance best

practices, and enable the consistent execution of these best practices with the JBoss

Enterprise SOA Platform. They offer the added benefit that there is no requirement to

introduce another non-JBoss platform in order to support the required architecture.

Using Policy Manager, Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager and Service Manager, SOA

Software certifies JBoss’s products as Governed Service Platforms. Certified Governed

Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms will

preserve the fidelity of the governance models, structures and mechanisms supporting

an enterprise SOA program.

SOA Software’s products offer a comprehensive Integrated SOA Governance Automation

solution for JBoss:

1.22 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

From the JBoss product overview: http://www.jboss.com/products/platforms/application

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is the market leading platform for innovative and

scalable Java applications. Integrated, simplified, and delivered by the leader in

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enterprise open source software, it includes leading open source technologies for

building, deploying, and hosting enterprise Java applications and services.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform balances innovation with enterprise class stability

by integrating the most popular clustered Java EE application server with next

generation application frameworks. Built on open standards, JBoss Enterprise Application

Platform integrates JBoss Application Server, with JBoss Hibernate, JBoss Seam, and

other leading open source Java technologies from JBoss.org into a complete, simple

enterprise solution for Java applications.

1.22.1 Governance Automation Model

SOA Software has certified the JBoss Application Platform as a Governed Service

Platform. This allows customers to use JBoss to implement and enforce governance

policies for enterprise services providing reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit

process as part of their enterprise SOA.

SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager and Repository Manager help customers ensure that

they can use the JBoss Application Platform to build the right enterprise services and

build them the right way:

• Achieve a quicker return on investment in SOA - Build to plan, build to priority

o Understand dependencies between planned services and prioritize

development appropriately

o Build services based on current and planned needs according to a well

thought-out program

• Lower cost of development

o Reuse of services, components, assets and frameworks

o deliver knowledge assets (patterns, best practices, etc.) to development

• Faster time to market

o Reuse = shorter development cycles

o Development process automation

o Better alignment between IT and the business

• Reduce the cost of failure

o Identify problems earlier for a 30x cost saving Forrester

o Reduce application downtime Gartner

SOA Software’s Policy Manager and Service Manager ensure that the JBoss Application

Platform can facilitate and benefit from the core Unified SOA Governance Automation

best practices:

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• Trust & Management Mediation – provide last-mile security, metric collection and

reporting, SLA monitoring and management, to ensure that services exposed by

JBoss Application Platform are governed, managed, and secured. Provide policy

implementation and mediation to allow JBoss Application Platform to

communicate with a wide range of mission critical business services exposed

from both JBoss and non-JBoss platforms.

• Service Virtualization – conveniently make JBoss Application Platform services

available to partners and allow it to consume partner services

• Governance Automation – automate the publishing of JBoss Application Platform

services, providing lifecycle workflow with approvals, collaboration services, and

consumer contract provisioning

• Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and

suitability of JBoss Application Platform services

• Metadata Federation - ensure that JBoss Application Platform services are visible

to, relevant, and consumable by other platforms – and make services from other

platforms visible to, relevant and consumable by the JBoss Application Platform.

Automatically discover services in Process Server and publish them into Policy

Manager subject to governance policies

• Change Impact Mitigation - make sure that changes to JBoss Application Platform

services don’t cause major outages by breaking consumers

• Uniform Policy Management - ensure that JBoss Application Platform 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 the JBoss Application Platform. The

Agent deploys into the JBoss Application Platform to monitor and manage messages. It

provides a policy engine to enforce governance policies for the JBoss Application

Platform. The policy engine discovers its policies using WS-MetadataExchange and WS-

Policy from Policy Manager, and reports metrics, usage, and exceptions to Policy

Manager.

SOA Software also provides a fully functional Delegate for the JBoss Application

Platform. The Delegate deploys into JBoss Application Platform processes to abstract

them from the location, transport and other policy representations of consuming

services.

1.23 JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (including ESB)

From the JBoss product overview: http://www.jboss.com/products/platforms/soa/ JBoss

Enterprise SOA Platform is the next generation of EAI - better and without the vendor-

lock-in characteristics of old. As such, many of the capabilities mirror those of existing

EAI offerings: Business Process Monitoring, Integrated Development Environment,

Human Workflow User Interface, Business Process Management, Connectors,

Transaction Manager, Security, Application Container, Messaging Service, Metadata

Repository, Naming and Directory Service, Distributed Computing Architecture.

Plus JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is part of an SOI (Service Oriented Infrastructure).

However, SOA is not simply a technology or a product: it's a style of design, with many

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aspects (such as architectural, methodological and organizational) unrelated to the

actual technology.

It uses a flexible architecture based on SOA principles such as loose-coupling and

asynchronous message passing, emphasizing an incremental approach to adopting and

deploying an SOI.

1.23.1 Governance Automation Model

SOA Software has certified the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform as a Governed Service

Platform. This allows customers to use JBoss to implement and enforce governance

policies for enterprise services providing reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit

process as part of their enterprise SOA.

SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager and Repository Manager help customers ensure that

they can use the ESB in JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to deliver the right enterprise

services the right way:

• Achieve a quicker return on investment in SOA - Build to plan, build to priority

o Understand dependencies between planned services and prioritize

development appropriately

o Build services based on current and planned needs according to a well

thought-out program

• Lower cost of development

o Reuse of services, components, assets and frameworks

o deliver knowledge assets (patterns, best practices, etc.) to development

• Faster time to market

o Reuse = shorter development cycles

o Development process automation

o Better alignment between IT and the business

• Reduce the cost of failure

o Identify problems earlier for a 30x cost saving Forrester

o Reduce application downtime Gartner

SOA Software’s Policy Manager and Service Manager ensure that the JBoss ESB can

facilitate and benefit from the core Unified 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

the ESB in JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform are governed, managed, and secured.

Provide policy implementation and mediation to allow JBoss Enterprise SOA

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Platform to communicate with a wide range of mission critical business services

exposed from both JBoss and non-JBoss platforms.

• Service Virtualization – conveniently make JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform

services available to partners and allow it to consume partner services

• Governance Automation – automate the publishing of JBoss Enterprise SOA

Platform services, providing lifecycle workflow with approvals, collaboration

services, and consumer contract provisioning

• Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and

suitability of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform services

• Metadata Federation - ensure that JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform services are

visible to, relevant, and consumable by other platforms – and make services from

other platforms visible to, relevant and consumable by the JBoss Enterprise SOA

Platform . Automatically discover services in Process Server and publish them

into Policy Manager subject to governance policies

• Change Impact Mitigation - make sure that changes to JBoss Enterprise SOA

Platform services don’t cause major outages by breaking consumers

• Uniform Policy Management - ensure that JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform

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 the ESB in JBoss Enterprise SOA

Platform. The Agent deploys into the ESB to monitor and manage messages. It

provides a policy engine to enforce governance policies for the ESB. The policy engine

discovers its policies using WS-MetadataExchange and WS-Policy from Policy Manager,

and reports metrics, usage, and exceptions to Policy Manager.

SOA Software also provides a fully functional Delegate for JBoss Enterprise SOA

Platform. The Delegate deploys into JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform processes to

abstract them from the location, transport and other policy representations of

consuming services.

1.24 JBoss jBPM

From the JBoss product overview: http://jboss.com/products/jbpm

Create business processes that coordinate people, applications, and services. Designed

for SMB and large enterprise applications alike, JBoss jBPM brings process automation to

a much wider set of business problems, from embedded workflow to enterprise business

process orchestration and BPM.

JBoss jBPM is also a key component of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.

JBoss jBPM enables IT flexibility by supporting multiple-process languages with the same

scalable process engine platform.

JBoss jBPM's pluggable architecture is extensible and customizable on every level: within

the process engine, for each process definition, and every corresponding process

instance.

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1.24.1 Governance Automation Model

SOA Software has certified JBoss jBPM as a Governed Service Platform. This allows

customers to use JBoss to implement and enforce governance policies for enterprise

services providing reporting data to enable a closed-loop audit process as part of their

enterprise SOA.

SOA Software’s Portfolio Manager and Repository Manager help customers ensure that

they can use JBoss jBPM to build the right enterprise services and build them the right

way:

• Achieve a quicker return on investment in SOA - Build to plan, build to priority

o Understand dependencies between planned services and prioritize

development appropriately

o Build services based on current and planned needs according to a well

thought-out program

• Lower cost of development

o Reuse of services, components, assets and frameworks

o deliver knowledge assets (patterns, best practices, etc.) to development

• Faster time to market

o Reuse = shorter development cycles

o Development process automation

o Better alignment between IT and the business

• Reduce the cost of failure

o Identify problems earlier for a 30x cost saving Forrester

o Reduce application downtime Gartner

SOA Software’s Policy Manager and Service Manager ensure that JBoss jBPM can

facilitate and benefit from the core Integrated 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

JBoss jBPM are governed, managed, and secured. Provide policy implementation

and mediation to allow JBoss jBPM to communicate with a wide range of mission

critical business services exposed from both JBoss and non-JBoss platforms.

• Service Virtualization – conveniently make JBoss jBPM services available to

partners and allow it to consume partner services

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• Governance Automation – automate the publishing of JBoss jBPM services,

providing lifecycle workflow with approvals, collaboration services, and consumer

contract provisioning

• Continuous Compliance and Validation - ensure the relevance, applicability and

suitability of JBoss jBPM services

• Metadata Federation - ensure that JBoss jBPM services are visible to, relevant,

and consumable by other platforms – and make services from other platforms

visible to, relevant and consumable by the JBoss jBPM. Automatically discover

services in Process Server and publish them into Policy Manager subject to

governance policies

• Change Impact Mitigation - make sure that changes to JBoss jBPM services don’t

cause major outages by breaking consumers

• Uniform Policy Management - ensure that JBoss jBPM 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 JBoss jBPM. The Agent deploys into

JBoss jBPM to monitor and manage messages. It provides a policy engine to enforce

governance policies for JBoss jBPM. The policy engine discovers its policies using WS-

MetadataExchange and WS-Policy from Policy Manager, and reports metrics, usage, and

exceptions to Policy Manager.

SOA Software also provides a fully functional Delegate for JBoss jBPM. The Delegate

deploys into JBoss jBPM processes to abstract them from the location, transport and

other policy representations of consuming services.

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10 About SOA Software

SOA Software is a leading provider of unified governance automation products that

enable organizations to successfully plan, build, and run enterprise services. The world’s

largest companies including Bank of America, Verizon, and Pfizer use SOA Software

solutions to transform their business. For more information, please visit

http://www.soa.com.

SOA Software, Policy Manager, Portfolio Manager, Repository Manager, Service Manager,

and SOLA are trademarks of SOA Software, Inc. All other product and company names

herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their registered owners.

SOA Software, Inc.

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Copyright © 2009 by SOA Software, Inc.

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