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Toward a Hybrid Solution for the Web of Services

Toward a Hybrid Solution for the Web of Services. Eric Newcomer IONA Technologies W3C Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing February 27-28 2007. Web of Documents is a Success!. Human to computer interactions well on the way to solution Everyone knows about and uses the Web.

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Toward a Hybrid Solution for the Web of Services

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  1. Toward a Hybrid Solution for the Web of Services Eric Newcomer IONA Technologies W3C Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing February 27-28 2007

  2. Web of Documents is a Success! • Human to computer interactions well on the way to solution • Everyone knows about and uses the Web

  3. Web of Services is Not • Industry and business requirements are not met • How to make this succeed? CICS IMS C, C++, COBOL, PL/I, Java, C#

  4. The answer is standardization But the industry has been trying unsuccessfully for years Standard Application Programming Interface Standard Network Interconnect Protocol Application Service Underlying Platform Network Figure 1, Interchangeable applications and open network access From “The Keys to the Highway” by Conklin and Newcomer, third chapter of The Future Of Software, MIT Press,1995

  5. CICS IMS Is service abstraction the right approach? • Service enable existing IT systems • Use WSDL plus extensions • Multi protocol • Multi data format (not just XML) • Preserve & bridge existing QoS

  6. Enterprise Software Productivity • The biggest missing link is program-program standards • These are resisted by vendors • Fight for developers remains key issue • Solution through Web services would provide significant benefit • But Is the W3C really the place for this?

  7. Supplier A Supplier A Supplier A Supplier A Supplier A Supplier A Supplier Internet Supplier Supplier Supplier Supplier Supplier Supplier Supplier Does a single set of standards make sense? SAP • Middleware solution based on SOAP/WSDL • http/XML standards MQ Series OS 390 Tandem ftp • Integrator • Routing • Transport • Translation • Process flow Orbix FIREWALL Tuxedo Intranet Exostar TPF CICS IMS BAAN Internal Repository/ UDDI External Repository/ UDDI MRP PeopleSoft http

  8. Supplier A Supplier A Supplier A Supplier A Supplier A Supplier A Supplier Internet Supplier Supplier Supplier Supplier Supplier Supplier Supplier Or is a hybrid set better? SAP • Middleware solution based on SOAP/WSDL • Multi-protocol/XML MQ Series • Middleware solution based on REST • http/XML OS 390 Tandem ftp • Integrator • Routing • Transport • Translation • Process flow Orbix FIREWALL Tuxedo Intranet Exostar TPF CICS IMS BAAN Internal Repository/ UDDI External Repository/ UDDI MRP PeopleSoft http

  9. What Can Be Done? • Clearly separate Web and services architectures • EPRs make sense in the enterprise (for example) • Define how to join the two • Help users develop best practices • Avoid innovator’s dilemma • Define multi protocol and multi data format binding • Layer on existing enterprise IT infrastructures • Bridge using WS-Context for sessions • “SOAP server” alongside Web server • (SOAP was originally HTTP extension)

  10. SOAP Server SOAP server alongside Web server WS-Context XML MSG EJB JMS IIOP WCF MQ http message .NET MQ http proxy CORBA Object Web Server HTML

  11. Summary • Existing systems are not going away • Too expensive to throw them out • Need standards for productivity gain • Abstractions are not just technical • Software exists for humans to interact with • Avoid innovator’s dilemma • Design new systems using REST principles • Do we need a way to map HTTP uniform interfaces to existing custom interfaces?

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