Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c

Matjaz B. Juric, Sven Bernhardt, Hajo Normann, Danilo Schmiedel, Guido Schmutz, Mark Simpson, Torsten Winterberg

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Année: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781849689441
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Informatica
• Sous-sujet: Applicazioni per aziende

Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c

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Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Business Process Management, Service-oriented Architecture, and Enterprise Architecture

The importance of business processes

Modeling and optimizing business processes

Classifying business processes

The digital economy and knowledge-driven processes

Business architecture

Enterprise architecture

Business process management

Business process life cycle

Business process modeling

Modeling method and notation

Adaptive case management

AS-IS process model diagram

Exception handling

Modeling principles

Common problems in process modeling

Publishing and communicating process models

Process execution, monitoring, and analytics

Business activity monitoring

Key performance indicators

Process optimization

The TO-BE process model

Typical problems in process optimization

Oracle BPM Suite

How SOA and BPM fit together

Agility

Resilience

Better aligning business with IT

New frontiers for SOA

Oracle SOA Suite

Summary

2. Modeling Business Processes for SOA – Methodology

The postmature birth of enterprise BPM

Oracle BPM Suite 12c – new business architecture features

Football games – same basic rules, different methodology

Which BPM game do we play?

Game Silo BPM – departmental workflows

Oracle BPM Suite 11g is made for playing Game Silo BPM

Oracle BPM Suite models processes in BPMN

Game Enterprise BPM

Still wide open – the business/IT divide

Oracle BPM Suite 12c tackles Game Enterprise BPM

Using business architect features

Properties of BA models

Depicting organizational units

Value chains

Strategy models

Key performance indicators

KPIs in the value chain step level

Why we need a new methodology for Game Enterprise BPM

Political change through Game Enterprise BPM

Pair modeling the value chains and business processes

Using guidelines and conventions to establish broad understanding

BPM Methodology for Oracle BPM Suite

Summary

3. BPMN for Business Process Modeling

Business process classification and BPMN

Strategic or operational

Process type

Process scope

Business process diagrams

Deeper analysis of BPMN elements

Events

Activities

Subprocess

Task

Gateways

Sequence and message flows

Pools and lanes

General guidelines for business process modeling

Rule 1 – process models should provide aid in process understanding

Rule 2 – match each split with a join

Rule 3 – have well-defined start and end events

Rule 4 – look out for orphan tasks

Process modeling patterns and BPMN

Basic control patterns

Simple sequence

Parallel split sequence or forking

Type 1 – uncontrolled flow

Type 2 – controlled flow

Type 3 – parallel box

Synchronization or joining flow

Type 1 – use of the parallel (AND) gateway

Type 2 – subprocess completion

Branching and synchronization patterns

Multichoice

Structured synchronizing merge

Multimerge

Iteration-based patterns

Arbitrary cycles

Structured loop

Termination

Implicit termination

Explicit termination

Multiple-instance pattern

Multiple instances without synchronization

Multiple instances with a priori design-time knowledge

Multiple instances with a priori runtime knowledge

State-based patterns

Deferred choice

Modeling an abstract BPMN process

Top-down modeling: where the value chain meets BPMN

Moving from process level 3 to level 4

Differentiating automated process/workflows and page flows

Summary

4. Process-driven Service Design

Service design guidelines

Benefits of service design for BPM

Key service design principles

Service granularity

Service categories

Presentation services

Business process services

Enterprise business services

Application services

Utility services

Service design – an enterprise concern

Data in the context of SOA

Service virtualization

Service design methodology

Top-down portfolio-driven service design

Bottom-up application-driven service design

Use case-driven service design

Process-driven service design

Applying service design to RYLC

Rationalizing the RYLC process into abstract services

Building the RYLC service catalog

Service architecture for the Rent A Car process

Summary

5. Composite Applications

SOA + applications = composite applications

SOA is backed up by user requirements

Always link new architecture styles back to highly prioritized business requirements

What are composite applications?

Moving from the programmatic paradigm to the declarative paradigm

The Oracle SOA Suite journey

Beyond 12c – the trend of the zero code

How to get on board?

SCA as the next generation of containers

How does SCA composite behave from the outside?

The many colors of SCA's internals

Impacts of SCA on the architecture and design guidelines

Templates in SOA Suite 12c for consistent designs

The deployment model for SCA

The building blocks of a composite architecture

An end-to-end walkthrough – from processes to use cases

Designing read services – a shift from WSDL to REST

Designing writing services – WSDL and SOAP still reign

From composite applications to domain services

Linking domain processes to local workflows

Components of the process layer

Automated processes are the new kid in town

Interacting with users through task management

Notifying through business activity monitoring

When to use a business rule for decision making in the process

Components of the multichannel application layer

Components of the functionality virtualization layer

Components of the data access virtualization layer

Using the business rule engine as an alternative to classical integration tools

Other types of integration logic that motivate a business rule engine

Summary

6. Process Execution with BPMN and BPEL

Implementation roadmap

From process requirements to design

Evaluating the associated components

Defining the implementation steps

Deciding where to use BPMN and where BPEL

Using BPEL to implement fleet management

Solution concepts

Service facade and contract-first composite design

Delegation pattern

Implementing the OperationDelegator

Implementing service operations

Using BPMN to implement the rental process

Finding the right level of variance paths

Bridging the gap between the business and IT

Concretizing the process

Deciding on the coupling levels per activity

Defining the activity type per activity

Designing the referenced services

Deciding on message exchange patterns

Adding exception handling

Defining the correlation of events to processes

Decoupling business data from process instance data

Best practices

Degrees of coupling between technical components

Organizing the MDS structure

Distinguishing between public and private interfaces

Archiving and monitoring with BPEL sensors

Keeping processes clean using assertions

Naming criteria for composite partitions

Summary

7. Human Interaction with Business Processes

User experience guidelines

User personas and user journeys within a business process

Designing the user interface – wireframes, task-driven, process insight

Task identification and patterns

Invoking human tasks from BPMN and BPEL

Human Workflow architecture

Example: Adding human interaction to a business process

Building task-driven user interfaces – workspace, web forms, ADF, .Net

ADF

Web forms

.NET

Best practice considerations – performance, extensibility, upgrade protection

General process design

Explicit versus implicit modeling

Custom inbox applications

Summary

8. Business Rules

Why business rules within BPM are important?

About rules

Rules and BPM

How to design rules and how to organize them

Discovering rules

Designing and organizing rules

Using rules

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