Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) need Web Integration to deliver Web Services of legacy applications

Mr. Lal Bihari Barik
Asst. Prof. (MCA)

Background

Corporations need to adapt to change at an ever increasing pace. For IT organizations, a compelling path to become more agile is to look to a Service Oriented architecture (SOA), where monolithic enterprise applications are changed to a set of reusable services – or application logic pieces that can then be mixed and matched to create composite applications for specific business requirements.

The core requirement for a successful SOA strategy is the ability to have Web Services available anytime, anywhere. There are many challenging scenarios for IT where RoboSuite can help:

• ‘Wrapping’ legacy applications in a Web services layer enabling it to be deployed in a SOA frameworks

• Reaching external 3 rd party applications that are out of IT’s control, sites like partner and customer Web sites, and create internally consumable Web services of these

• Linking intranets through a Web services layer for cross divisional integration of otherwise non-accessible application functionality, and

• Compensate for lost application skills by taking legacy applications and generate Web services of the application logic where rewriting skills are no longer available.

The only viable solution to these challenges is Web Integration – a solution that move the boundaries of your budget and skill constraint outwards to encompass both the complex and the less critical applications as illustrated below:

Web Integration generate web services without re-programming

Web Integration uses the user interface, or the browsable application front-end, to integrate and generate the web services of either the entire application or any functional subset of it. Used in many corporations globally, Kapow Technologies RoboSuite Web Integration platform use a visual interface to extract the application logic needed with a point and click environment as illustrated below that then use the extracted logic to generate Web services of any legacy Web application in minutes without having to do any re-programming.

Key benefits

• Use the Browser front end for visual fast generation of Web services

• No change to existing applications and IT setup

• Minimal expertise required

• Deliver the required Web services without reprogramming required

• Low cost in development and on-going maintenance

• Low risk – on time and under budget

• Reduced time to results for large SOA framework projects