Patterns : Serial and Parallel Processes for Process Choreography and Workflow

Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Part 1 Patterns for e-business -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Patterns for e-business -- 1.1 The Patterns for e-business layered asset model -- 1.2 How to use the Patterns for e-business -- 1.2.1 Select Business, Integration, or Composite pattern or Custom design -- 1.2.2 Selecting Application patterns -- 1.2.3 Review Runtime patterns -- 1.2.4 Review Product mappings -- 1.2.5 Review guidelines and related links -- 1.3 Summary -- Chapter 2. Fundamental concepts in Process Integration -- 2.1 The need for a unifying technique -- 2.1.1 Similarities between intra- and inter-enterprise integration -- 2.1.2 Summary -- 2.2 Process Integration concepts and notations -- 2.2.1 Collaboration and Interaction -- 2.2.2 Connectors and Adapters -- 2.2.3 Classification of interaction between sub-systems -- 2.3 QoS capabilities framework -- 2.3.1 Operability -- 2.3.2 Availability -- 2.3.3 Federation -- 2.3.4 Performance -- 2.3.5 Security -- 2.3.6 Standards compliance -- 2.3.7 Transactionality -- 2.4 Application patterns for Application Integration -- 2.5 Application patterns for Extended Enterprise -- 2.6 Summary -- Chapter 3. Application Integration pattern -- 3.1 Using the pattern -- 3.2 Defining the Application Integration patterns -- 3.2.1 Business and IT drivers -- 3.2.2 Context -- 3.2.3 Solution -- 3.2.4 Putting the pattern to use -- 3.2.5 Application Integration considerations -- 3.2.6 What's next -- 3.3 Application patterns -- 3.4 Process-focused Application patterns -- 3.4.1 Direct Connection Application pattern -- 3.4.2 Direct Connection: Message Connection variation -- 3.4.3 Direct Connection: Call Connection variation -- 3.4.4 Broker Application pattern -- 3.4.5 Broker: Router variation.