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Fiorano's SOA platform keeps services independent


By David Worthington


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February 18, 2009 —  Fiorano, a service-oriented architecture infrastructure software maker, has updated its platform to keep services independent from execution environments.

Fiorano released today version 9.0 of its SOA platform. It adds a what the company calls "event process life-cycle management," the ability for developers to attach attributes to components as business processes move between environments, said CEO Atul Saini.

When services pass from one service environment to another, the underlying execution environment often manages the process state, explained ZapThink managing partner Jason Bloomberg.

"If you are relying on an execution environment to keep process state, that's not really a service-oriented approach," he added. "Abstracting that out makes services more independent. That can be done with traditional ESBs [Enterprise Service Bus], but it requires more work for the architect to know which resource to enable," he said.

The Fiorano platform differs from other ESBs because it is message-driven and supports actions among services differently than traditional ESBs, Bloomberg said.

"Ultimately, a business process implementation is message exchange between applications," Saini noted.

"Fiorano treats messages between services as events," Bloomberg explained, whereas most ESBs use a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) engine to coordinate services, he added. That architecture creates the problem that Fiorano is attempting to solve.

"There is an issue with BPEL engines not dealing well with services that aren't running in their local execution environment," Bloomberg said. "With a message-driven approach, you don't have that problem."

Fiorano has also taken a new approach to its tooling. It has rewritten its entire development studio in Eclipse. "Fiorano is not just a Java development product," said Saini. "The server is written in Java, but services and components can be written in C, C++, C# and Java."

Plug-ins for Microsoft Visual Studio and other .NET languages will be out by this summer, he added. The development environment currently has CVS and Subversion integration.

Additionally, the tooling has new facilities for migrating event processes from one stage of the software development life cycle to the next for development, QA, staging and production.




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