There is a robust visual tool for monitoring the business processes, message
transaction and status through a BPEL Process Monitor. You can also use the Java DB
for storing airline information. NetBeans has very good support for managing the
Java DB from the IDE.
So these are the required tools to get you started with building your
enterprise applications.
Summary
This chapter provided an overview of SOA and the need for SOA in enterprise
applications. SOA will mean different integration patterns to different companies.
There is not a single implementation of SOA that can be termed the best.
Implementing SOA in your enterprise applications depends mostly on your
business requirements.
BPEL is widely accepted as the means to orchestrate disparate web services
to conceive meaningful business processes. What BPEL does to your business
transaction is explained in this chapter with an imaginary airline. This chapter also
dealt with the need for SOA tools for rapidly building and deploying enterprise
grade applications. The tools used in this book are shipped with the NetBeans IDE
and the OpenESB 2.0 bundle.
The next couple of chapters introduce the NetBeans SOA Tools and the NetBeans
IDE and highlight various features and functionalities of the SOA Tools. Some of
these are the BPEL Designer, Activities Palette, BPEL Mapper, and XML Schema
Editors.
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