Havn't heard of Jacada before, but netbeans 6.1 has made service orchestration and composite application development a lot easier now.
-bushra ----- Original Message ---- From: Rob Eamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 12:01:12 AM Subject: [service-orientated-architecture] Re: jacada as a unified desk top --- In service-orientated- architecture@ yahoogroups. com, "A W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .> wrote: > > I am looking for non-invasive approach to integration. > I found a product called Jacada, which is using such approach. > > By surfacing key business functions as Web services without > requiring access, knowledge or even ownership of the underlying > code or database, and then by orchestrating these services in the > assembly of new composite applications. > > It helps in moving toward a service-based architecture. Tool selection does not result in moving towards any type of architecture, other than an ad hoc one. Architecture first, tool selection later. For non-invasive integration (defined as not needing to change the application being integrated) there are many, many tools that can do this. I've not heard of Jacada before, but the usual integration suspects may come into play here--IBM MQ products, TIBCO, webMethods, or virtually any ESB product available. Most, if not all, integration products provide various mechanisms for interacting with applications in some way. These tools can be quite useful in helping with service implementations. The key, IMO, is that the necessary services be identified/defined first, then you investigate what existing apps/components might be leveraged for implementation. Beware the pitfalls of doing the reverse in the form of "what existing stuff can be exposed as a service." -Rob
