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Enterprise Integration
Erik Doernenburg
ThoughtWorks, Inc.
edoernen@thoughtworks.com
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Agenda
 Challenges in enterprise application development
 Design patterns
 Enterprise Integration patterns
 Interop technologies
 Conclusion & Resources
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The challenge
 Enterprises depend on a growing number of IT systems
 The systems must provide an integrated solution for the
enterprise
 The systems must interoperate with each other
 Architectural trends and “waves” of technologies
 Changing business needs and requirements
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Finance Operator Application
fax/telex
app
web
email
mail
New System
Existing Systems
document
recognition
ERP
ref. data
 Workflow items are stored on Tibco RV/CM queue
 Tibco Integration Manager
 organises workflow
 handles imports from document recognition
 handles interaction with existing ERP systems
 Reference data imported using linked servers
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Portfolio Management Tool
 Front-end uses Office 2003
code-behind technology
 communicates with server using
WebSphere MQ queues
New application
Excel
front-end
application
logic
 Message format defined with
XSD schema
technology
adaptor
analytics
library
Existing
deal
manager
Existing
messaging
library
Existing
 Application uses existing services
 accesses analytics library with
COM bridge
 accesses stored deals through
deal manager service
 accesses service bus through
messaging abstraction library
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Design Patterns
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Why design patterns?
 Code reuse remains difficult
but…
 Knowledge reuse can be very valuable
 Patterns encapsulate knowledge of successful designs
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Using technology successfully
 Syntax
 Basic language mechanism
 A necessity but not a guarantee
 Constructs
 Classes, Interfaces, Inheritance, Polymorphism, etc.
 Helpful but not sufficient for good design
 Principles
 Separation of concerns, Dependency Injection, etc.
 Steer us towards a better solution
 Patterns
 Model-View-Controller, Observer, Decorator
 Concrete design guidance
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Patterns
 “Mind sized” chunk of information (Ward Cunningham)
 Shows a good solution to a common problem within a
specific context
 Observed from actual experience
 Has a distinct name
 Not copy-paste
 ThoughtWorks collaborates with Microsoft to document
design patterns for the .NET platform
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Enterprise Integration Patterns
Message
Routing
Message
Construction
Endpoint
Application
A
Messaging
Endpoints
Message
Channel
Messaging
Channels
Message
Transformation
Router
Translator
Endpoint
Application
B
Monitoring
System
Management
 Gregor Hohpe defined a visual pattern language describing
message-based enterprise integration solutions
 Pattern language comprises 65 patterns in 6 categories
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Pattern: Request-Response
Consumer
Request
Provider
Request Channel
Reply Channel
Response
 Service Consumer and Provider (similar to RPC)
 Channels are unidirectional
 Two asynchronous point-to-point channels
 Separate request and response messages
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Multiple consumers
Consumer 1
Requests
Requests
Provider
Request Channel
Reply Channel 1
?
Reply Channel 2
Responses
Consumer 2
 Each consumer has its own reply queue
 But how does the provider send the response?
 Could send to all consumers (very inefficient)
 Hard code (violates principle of context-free service)
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Pattern: Return Address
Consumer 1
Reply
Channel 1
Reply
Channel 2
Provider
Request Channel
Reply Channel 1
Reply Channel 2
Responses
Consumer 2
 Consumer specifies Return Address (the reply channel)
in the request message
 Service provider sends response message to specified
channel
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Load-balanced service providers
Provider 1
Consumer
Request Channel
Provider 2
Reply Channel
 Request message can be handled by multiple providers
 Point-to-point channel supports competing services
 Only one service receives each request message
 But what if the response messages are out of order?
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Pattern: Correlation Identifier
Consumer
1
2
2
1
1
2
Message
Identifier
Request Channel
Provider 1
1
2
Provider 2
2
1
Reply Channel
2
1
Correlation
Identifier
 Consumer assigns a unique identifier to each message
 Identifier can be an arbitrary ID, a GUID, a business key
 Provider copies the ID to the response message
 Consumer can match request and response
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Multiple specialised providers
Order Messages
Order
Entry
Widget Inv.
?
Gadget Inv.
 Each provider can only handle a specific type of message
 Route the request to the "appropriate" provider. But how?
 Do not want to burden sender with decision
 Letting providers "pick out" messages requires
coordination
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Pattern: Content-Based Router
Order Messages
Widget Inv.
Order
Entry
Content
Based
Router
Gadget Inv.
 Insert a content-based router
 Routers forward incoming messages to different channels
 Message content not changed
 Mostly stateless, but can be stateful, e.g. de-duper
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Composite messages
Order
Message
Order
Entry
Widget Inv.
?
Gadget Inv.
 How can we process a message that contains multiple
elements?
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Pattern: Splitter & Router
Order
Message
Order
Item 1
Order
Items
Widget Inv.
Order
Entry
Splitter
Gadget Inv.
Router
Order
Item 2
 Use a splitter to break out the composite message into a
series of individual messages
 Then use a router to route the individual messages as before
 Note that two patterns are composed
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Producing a single response
Order
Item 1
Response 1
Confirmed
Order
Widget Inv.
?
Billing
Gadget Inv.
Order
Item 2
Response 2
 How to combine the results of individual but related
messages?
 Messages can be out-of-order, delayed
 Multiple conversations can be intermixed
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Pattern: Aggregator
Order
Item 1
Response 1
Confirmed
Order
Widget Inv.
Billing
Gadget Inv.
Order
Item 2
Aggregator
Response 2
 Use a stateful filter, an Aggregator
 Collects and stores messages until a complete set has been
received (completeness condition)
 Publishes a single message created from the individual
messages (aggregation algorithm)
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Communicating with multiple parties
Vendor A
Quotes
Vendor B
Request
For Quote
Best
Quote
?
Vendor C
Aggregator
 How to send a message to a dynamic set of recipients?
 And return a single response message?
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Pattern: Scatter-Gather
Pub-Sub
channel
Vendor A
Quotes
Vendor B
Request
For Quote
Best
Quote
Vendor C
Aggregator
 Send message to a pub-sub channel
 Interested recipients subscribe to a "topic"
 Aggregator collects individual response messages
 may not wait for all quotes, only returns one quote
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Complex composition
Pub-Sub
channel
Vendor A
Quotes
Vendor B
Splitter
Aggregator
Quote request
for each item
Best Quote
for each item
Vendor C
Aggregator
 Receive an order message
 Use splitter to create one message per item
 Send to scatter/gather which returns "best quote" message
 Aggregate to create quoted order message
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Interop technologies
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Major interop technologies
 Resource based
DB
files
 RPC style / distributed objects
RMI-IIOP
(CORBA)
Remoting
(DCOM)
in-process
bridge
WS
 Message based / document-oriented
MOM
WS
WS-*
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Interop technology characteristics
platform
neutral
DB/files
MOM
WS-*
WS
J2EE
server
.NET
server
in-proc
RMI-IIOP
(CORBA)
Remoting
(DCOM)
bridge
point-to-point
routable
transient messages
durable message
clustering
server lifetimemanagement
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Messaging
 Channels are separate from applications
 Removes location dependencies
 Channels are asynchronous & reliable
 Removes temporal dependencies
 Data is exchanged in self-contained messages
 Removes data format dependencies
 Loosely coupled integration enables independent variation
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Why Web Services?
 Web services provide all benefits of messaging solution
 loose-coupling
 service oriented
 reliable communication
 Why web services?
 composable protocol
 vendor neutral
 suitable for access through Internet
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Web Services development
 Web Services are expected to become the default Messaging
solution in the future
 WS-* standards are evolving rapidly, most important
 WS-Security
 WS-Policy
 WS-Addressing
 WS-I defines profiles, sample applications and testing tools
 Profiles are guidelines for using WS specifications
 Use Basic profile 1.1 to build interoperable solutions
 Further research on WS is being carried out
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Conclusion
 Enterprise systems are becoming more complex
 We have patterns to help us with the design
 We have technologies to implement our designs
 Building for interoperability and integration is key
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Recommended books
Enterprise Integration Patterns
Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf
Addison-Wesley, 2004
Integration Patterns
Microsoft Patterns & Practices
2004
Patterns of Enterprise
Application Architecture
Martin Fowler
Addison-Wesley, 2003
Enterprise Solution Patterns
using Microsoft .NET
Microsoft Patterns & Practices
2003
Enterprise SOA
Dirk Krafzig, Karl Banke,
Dirk Slama
Prentice Hall, 2004
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