integration broker at cornell

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Integration Brokerat Cornell

Kevin LeonardCIT/Integration and Delivery

May 9, 2002


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Directory Integration

PeopleSoft HR

(employees)

ADABAS

(students)

Directory

Integration

Process

SQL

FTPNatural Pgms

Perl scripts


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Integration Broker is what?

Enables disparate systems to share

information in common manner.

The central control and storage point thatmediates events to and from applications,

managing the essential queuing, routing,

filtering and storing of information in an

reliable and secure manner.


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Integration Brokers Vendors

Gartner Magic Quadrant

IBMSeeBeyond

Tibco

VitriawebMethods

Others

MercatorSoftwareAG

BEA

Oracle


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webMethods

Chosen because

Features

Cost

Name is misleading

It is an Integration Broker

The web part of the name makes people think

its only for web access untrue.


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What can it do?

Just a few examples

Notice changes to PS data and apply the

changes to the directory or student data

Notice changes to the directory data and apply

the changes to PS or student

Notice data changes to any table or field in an

Oracle or Informix database and publish eventsNotice changes in flat files and process as

appropriate


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Goals

When data is altered in our PeopleSoft

system populate those changes to the

Directory, without any changes to the

PeopleSoft applications or the Directory

software.

Same for Student System.

Provide an infrastructure to allow these

types of interactions between other systems


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Event Driven

Event driven

Integrations are built by a developer

When an event happens a process is triggered

within the Broker

The process determines what happens, how

data is transformed and moved from one place

to anotherTwo phase commit is not available, must use a

compensating transactions if back-out is desired


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Hub & Spoke Design


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Broker

The Enterprise Server Broker is the main

engine

Message repository when using guaranteed

delivery

Data transformation

Event handling

Publish and subscribe

Synchronous messaging

Near real time updating


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Adapters

Adapters are configured to interface with

our infrastructure

PeopleSoft (via app server)

Directory (via LDAP)

Oracle

Informix

Student (via CUSSP)

File IO (flat files)

XML


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Other Adapters

Adapters we havent purchased but may

have interest in the future

Email

JMS

JavaBeans

Vantive

Microsoft SQL

ODBC & JDBC


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APIs

Well probably use these

JavaJMS

These are available, but we dont have plans

to use them todayC

CORBA


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Security

Certificate in use

with SSL


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Developer GUI Tool


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Process Diagram


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Document Types


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Monitor Application


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Document Tracker


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Broker Web Administration


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Admin Web Server Statistics


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Directory Integration Component


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Issues

Where is the starting point(data of record)?

What does the business process require to

be done?

Should a workflow process be triggered on

the event completion of XXX?

This is all new tools but yet old problems. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY !!


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More Information

http://solutions.cit.cornell.edu/Apps/webmethods

http://www.webmethods.com

integration broker at cornell

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