Event-Driven Architecture: How SOA Enables the Real-Time Enterprise: How SOA Enables the Real-Time Enterprise

by Hugh Taylor (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $52.50

  Improving Business Agility with EDA

  Going beyond SOA, enterprises can gain even greater agility by implementing event-driven architectures (EDAs) that automatically detect and react to significant business events. However, EDA planning and deployment is complex, and even experienced SOA architects and developers need expert guidance. In Event-Driven Architecture, four leading IT innovators present both the theory of EDA and practical, step-by-step guidance to implementing it successfully.

  The authors first establish a thorough and workable definition of EDA and explore how EDA can help solve many of today's most difficult business and IT challenges. You'll learn how EDAs work, what they can do today, and what they might be able to do as they mature. You'll learn how to determine whether an EDA approach makes sense in your environment and how to overcome the difficult interoperability and integration issues associated with successful deployment. Finally, the authors present chapter-length case studies demonstrating how both full and partial EDA implementations can deliver exceptional business value. Coverage includes

  • How SOA and Web services can power event-driven architectures
  • The role of SOA infrastructure, governance, and security in EDA environments
  • EDA core components: event consumers and producers, message backbones, Web service transport, and more
  • EDA patterns, including simple event processing, event stream processing, and complex event processing
  • Designing flexible stateless events that can respond to unpredictable customers, suppliers, and business partners
  • Addressing technical and business challenges such as project management and communication
  • EDA at work: real-world applications across multiple verticals

  Hugh Taylor is a social software evangelist for IBM Lotus Software. He coauthored Understanding Enterprise SOA and has written extensively on Web services and SOA. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Angela Yochem is an executive in a multinational technology company and is a recognized thought leader in architecture and large-scale technology management. Les Phillips, VP, enterprise architecture, at SunTrust Banks Inc., is responsible for defining the strategic and business IT foundation for many areas of the enterprise. Frank Martinez, EVP, product strategy, at SOA Software, is a recognized expert on distributed, enterprise application, and infrastructure platforms. He has served as senior operating executive for several venture-backed firms and helped build Intershop Communications into a multibillion-dollar public company.

  Foreword xi

  Preface xii

  Introduction 1

  Event-Driven Architecture: A Working Definition 1

  The New Era of Interoperability Dawns 6

  The ETA for Your EDA 9

  Endnotes 9

  PART I THE THEORY OF EDA

  Chapter 1 EDA: Opportunities and Obstacles 13

  The Vortex 13

  EDA: A Working Systemic Definition 14

  The (Not So Smooth) Path to EDA 24

  Defining Interoperability 26

  Drivers of Interoperability 28

  Application Integration: A Means to Interoperate 29

  Interoperation and Business Process Management 31

  Is There a Diet for All This Spaghetti? 35

  How Architecture Promotes Integration 37

  Management and Governance 39

  Chapter Summary 43

  Endnote 45

  Chapter 2 SOA: The Building Blocks of EDA 47

  Making You an Offer You Can't Understand 47

  SOA: The Big Picture 48

  Defining Service 49

  Service-Based Integration 50

  Web Services 51

  What Is SOA? 59

  Loose Coupling in the SOA 60

  Chapter Summary 61

  Chapter 3 Characteristics of EDA 63

  Firing Up the Corporate Neurons 63

  Revisiting the Enterprise Nervous System 63

  The Ideal EDA 78

  BAM--A Related Concept 86

  Chapter Summary 87

  Endnotes 89

  Chapter 4 The Potential of EDA 91

  Introduction 91

  EDA's Potential in Enterprise Computing 91

  EDA and Enterprise Agility 100

  EDA and Society's Computing Needs 102

  EDA and Compliance 107

  Chapter Summary 108

  Chapter 5 The SOA-EDA Connection 111

  Getting Real 111

  Event Services 112

  The Service Network 114

  Implementing the SOA and Service Network 116

  How to Design an SOA 122

  The Real Bottom Line 134

  Chapter Summary 137

  PART II EDA IN PRACTICE

  Chapter 6 Thinking EDA 141

  A Novel Mind-Set 141

  Reducing Central Control 142

  Thinking about EDA Implementation 148

  When EDA Is Not the Answer 151

  An EDA Product Examined 153

  Chapter Summary 157

  Endnotes 158

  Chapter 7 Case Study: Airline Flight Control 159

  Learning Objectives 160

  Business Context: Airline Crunch Time 160

  The Ideal Airline Flight Control EDA 167

  What FEDA Might Look Like in Real Life 176

  Program Success 197

  Chapter Summary 206

  Endnotes 207

  Chapter 8 Case Study: Anti-Money Laundering 209

  Learning Objectives 210

  Cracking a Trillion Dollar, Global Crime Wave 210

  IT Aspects of Anti-Money Laundering 216

  EDA as a Weapon in the War on Money Laundering 221

  Chapter Summary 259

  Endnotes 260

  Chapter 9 Case Study: Event-Driven Productivity Infrastructure 261

  Learning Objectives 262

  The Often Inadequate Human Link in the EDA 262

  Overview of Productivity Infrastructure 264

  The Potential Benefits of EDA-PI Integration 267

  ProdCo, an EDA-PI Integration Scenario 273

  Chapter Summary 293

  Endnotes 294