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Raining
Data Corporation
25A Technology Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
Ajay
Ramachandran, CTO & Vice President,
XML-Centric Platforms and Applications
Phone: (949) 442-4400
Fax: (949) 250-8187
ajay.ramachandran@rainingdata.com
RAINING
DATA TO PRESENT AT JAVAONE
IRVINE,
CA. – May 8, 2006
- Supercharging
SOA Registries for Improved Governance and Performance
Representatives
from Raining Data Corporation will be presenting “Supercharging
SOA Registries with XML Persistence and Management”, Session
ID# TS-8098, at the 2006 JavaOne Conference to be held May 16-19,
2006 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
Ash Parikh,
Director of Technology & Development, Ajay Ramachandran,
CTO & Vice President and Premal Parikh, Lead Architect from
Raining Data’s XML-Centric Platforms and Applications Group
will discuss this emerging technology topic.
"Raining
Data’s TigerLogic XDMS plug-in for Sun Service Registry adds
new value to the Sun Service Registry product by enabling direct
and efficient search of XML content within our repository using
the XQuery standard. The new features complement and accentuate
the already rich SOA Governance features of Sun Service Registry,"
said Farrukh Najmi, Federated Information Management Architect
from Sun Microsystems.
This session
discusses the following:
Problem:
The core
challenge of SOA governance is to provide an adequate governance
infrastructure that scales while still providing the agility
and flexibility that SOA architectures require. SOA metadata
is becoming the lifeblood of SOA implementations, because of
its importance to corporate visibility, policy management, and
governance. The more dynamic the business environment, the more
important metadata becomes.
Enterprises
traditionally store metadata and SOA payloads in relational
databases and file systems, but these data persistence tools
are not well-suited to handle SOA-related metadata and transactional
payloads. SOA metadata and payloads are fundamentally XML (hierarchical)
and therefore naturally do not fit well in relational databases,
and relational database schemas are inflexible which do not
adapt well to the always-evolving, often ad hoc schemas
in an SOA implementation, especially when business requirements
are changing. File systems do not provide the advanced querying
and management capabilities that SOA implementations require.
Solution:
In order
to preserve the agility of the SOA implementation as it scales,
it is essential to implement an XML-based caching architecture.
In order
for an SOA repository to enable increased performance, reliability,
functionality, and usability of SOA artifacts, an SOA implementation
requires an effective mid-tier caching architecture that supports
the robust query capabilities that XQuery offers.
XQuery forms
the last link in the IT governance chain: IT governance depends
on SOA governance, which in turn depends upon policy and other
metadata management. Effective metadata management requires
scalable metadata persistence, which relies upon effective XML-native
query capabilities.
XQuery enables
sophisticated search for metadata discovery.
It is
not sufficient simply to be able to find large quantities
of disparate metadata; users must be able to discover just
the metadata they need. Therefore, it is essential that users
have access to sophisticated metadata search capabilities.
Because of the diversity of metadata within the organization,
such search capabilities must leverage the power and complexity
of XML. Since most SOA content is XML, XQuery is the obvious
choice for enabling such searches.
XQuery-enabled
metadata and transactional payload persistence enables a policy-based
caching service.
This caching
service enables XQuery based policies to cache result sets
of poorly performing services which can accelerate SOA payloads
and improve responsiveness to service consumers. It is also
possible to construct such policies to include the time-to-live
before the cache needs refreshing. It is possible to base
such policies on time of-day requests for determining the
validity of cached data. Policies based on service availability
can then ensure that if the service is not available, the
consumer obtains the desired data from the cache, because
policies can trigger the XML persistence mechanism.
XQuery-based
persistence enables a data repurposing service to improve
performance.
Such a
service enables filtering and search criteria on content that
a service returns. XQuery drives the transformations behind
the repurposing of SOA metadata and payloads, providing analytics
and reporting capabilities. In addition, XQuery is used to
create a data abstraction service, which can eliminate the
need for services to be aware of individual data sources.
XQuery-based
metadata persistence enables a SOA registry-repository to scale
by supporting the federation of services within a SOA
implementation.
A SOA
repository can serve as a persistence layer in the middle
tier, storing transactional information for many purposes,
including analysis and integrity management issues. SOA-enabling
technologies such as enterprise service buses and orchestration
engines can then employ such an XQuery enabled SOA repository
for state management, workflow persistence, content acceleration,
content based routing, policy management & enforcement,
and message persistence.
XQuery optimizes
metadata management by improving agility and efficiency
of SOA administration and maintenance across the enterprise.
It is
not sufficient to erect a SOA registry-repository without
providing a seamless, flexible and real-time mechanism to
administer and update the SOA as organizational policy, business
conditions and customer needs change. XQuery provides a powerful
and flexible approach to automate SOA maintenance and eliminate
the need for costly manual and programmatic updates to SOA
metadata, especially when the SOA spans across enterprise
departments and stakeholders. Furthermore, XQuery can be utilized
to refresh the metadata in a SOA registry-repository by querying
or polling the actual service endpoints across the enterprise
and between trading partners to assess any changes thereby
keeping the SOA continually updated and responsive to business
change.
XQuery improves
SOA governance and policy management by enforcing policies
on SOA transactions and payloads.
As the
number of services endpoints, transactions and payloads in
the SOA increase, XQuery plays an increasingly important role
in the SOA to enforce policies by introspecting payloads,
analyzing their content, determining policy violations and
taking the appropriate action. This approach to SOA governance
and policy management ensures organizational alignment, consistency,
and reliability of an SOA.
XQuery enables
high-performance composite applications with real-time, flexible
composite data by exposing heterogeneous legacy data as
consumable data services.
XQuery
enables composite data services by representing existing data
sources such as relational databases, java and .net applications,
JCA, JMS, websites, web services, file systems as web service
endpoints that can be rapidly exposed in an enterprise SOA.
Raining Data Advantage:
Raining
Data’s TigerLogic XDMS offers the highest performance and scalable
XML persistence and XQuery platform on the market. The TigerLogic
patent pending XML indexing/profiling technology and Pick®
Universal Data Model persistence engine enables it to perform
up to 150x faster when accessing XML metadata with XQuery than
relational databases, XML repositories, XML index/search engines
or file systems, therefore providing the lowest total cost of
ownership option (http://www.rainingdata.com/products/tl/index.html).
The TigerLogic XDMS platform also provides sophisticated mid-tier
data caching services for SOA architectures allowing for rapid
creation of composite data services of existing legacy systems
and the acceleration-repurpose of content in the SOA.
The presentation
will be given as part of the “Leading Edge” track, session TS-8098.
More information on the 2006 JavaOne Conference can be found
at http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/.
About Raining Data
Raining
Data Corporation (Nasdaq: RDTA), headquartered in Irvine, California,
offers enterprise-grade XML database management and information
aggregation software solutions and has been providing reliable
data management and rapid application deployment solutions for
ISVs and developers of database applications for more than three
decades. Raining Data's flagship products include: 1) The high-performance
TigerLogic® XML Data Management Server (XDMS),
which provides flexible, scalable and extensible XML data storage
as well as query and retrieval of critical business data across
a variety of structured and unstructured information sources,
delivering mid-tier scalability and transactional integrity
across heterogeneous enterprise databases as well as dynamic
extensibility and ease of use plus low total cost of ownership;
2) Powerful Pick® Universal Data Model (Pick
UDM) based database management systems and components, including
D3®, mvEnterprise® and mvBase®
that are the choice of more than a thousand application developers
worldwide and .NET Integration components including the Pick
Data Provider for .NET and the Pick Reporting Services Connector;
and 3) Omnis Studio®, a powerful, cross-platform,
object-oriented RAD tool for developing sophisticated thick-client,
Web-client or ultra thin-client database applications.
Raining
Data’s installed customer base includes more than 500,000 active
users representing over 20,000 customer sites worldwide, with
a significant base of diverse vertical applications. With more
than 160 employees and contractors in five countries, Raining
Data offers 24x7 customer support and maintains a strong international
presence. More information about Raining Data Corporation and
its products can be found at www.rainingdata.com.
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