SOA and BPM
SOPERA and Intalio
The case for using BPM in your SOA environment has long been discussed as an important milestone event in the history of SOA. Experts in the field have convincingly made the case for incorporating BPM and SOA.
What does this have to do with SOPERA? Well, we are currently working on an exciting project to extend and improve our efforts to further integrate with Intalio BPM.
If you’ve been using SOPERA ASF and have Intalio BPM (Server and Designer) you can with this add-on make use of both Intalio’s BPM processes and SOPERA’s SOA services. Now you can have your business analyst map universal, concise, and easily comprehensible BPM processes and use the SOPERA Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to connect or build the underlying application services.
With this integration in place, you can now install both SOPERA ASF and Intalio BPM Designer in the same Eclipse IDE and use the processes and services in it as shown in this figure.
This add-on enables calls SOPERA services from within your existing business processes with all the advantages that SOPERA provides such as:
- Service Registry Look-up (Location Independence)
- Policies
- Security Features
- Transport Independence (for example, HTTP, HTTPS, and JMS)
And finally and most importantly, our ESB hides the underlying implementation technology of your services (such as JEE, .NET, or SAP to name a few examples) from your business processes.
If you want to see a feature preview in action, take a look at the following use case scenarios in these screencasts:
- Call a SOPERA Service from a Process Deployed into an Intalio BPM Server.
- Trigger a Business Process from a SOPERA Service Consumer.
Coming Soon!
- Visual Service Registry Integration with Drag & Drop capabilities
- BPMN Pools with Associated Authentication Information and Policies
- Easy-to-follow Tutorials and Examples
This integration can be used by existing Intalio customers and will be part of an enterprise-level SOPERA BPM offering.
Stay tuned!