Jan 23

Tom’s CEC 2008 Java CAPS and GlassFishESB Tutorials are available

By Michael Czapski Sun No Comments »

I have been making references  to Tom Barrett’s tutorials in my blog entries, screencasts, and writeups, but without providing the links to them. Now, courtesy of Tom, I am able to do so. See below for the link and the description of Tom’s tutorials.

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The three tutorial documents from CEC 2008 are posted at:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenESBTutor/Tom+Barrett%27s+Open+ESB+and+Mural+Tutorials

See the following section:

Sun Customer Engineering Conference (CEC) – Three Tutorials
The following three tutorials were developed for customer-facing systems engineers at Sun and at Sun partners. They were delivered at CEC 2008 held in Las Vegas in November, 2008. The goal of these three tutorials is to document the steps necessary to create, from scratch, three demonstrations that were delivered in Java CAPS/GlassFish ESB/Open ESB-related sessions at CEC 2008.

1. Exploring GlassFish ESB (V 1.1) – 90 pages – November 6, 2008 This tutorial is based upon an Internet store front scenario where customers purchase items and purchase orders (POs) are generated and forwarded to the “backend” Purchaser. The Purchaser, in turn, collaborates with the Supplier which coordinates shipping and generates a delivery notices (DNs). DNs are returned to the Purchaser and the Purchaser matches up DNs with POs before forwarding instructions to Finance for further processing.

Specific technical topics include:

Custom encoder to marshal XML to delimited records and unmarshal delimited records to XML
BPEL: looping, predicates and correlation
Service Engines: BPEL
Binding Components: HTTP, File, JMS

2. Exploring Sun ESB Suite: Open ESB Technology (V 1.1) – 51 pages – November 18, 2008
This tutorial explores a health care scenario that analyzes HL7 ADT (Admission Discharge Transfer) records to identity patient length of stays that have exceeded an average threshold set by management.  The Intelligent Event Processor (IEP) computes a moving average and identifies ADT records that note an exceptional patient length of stay.  IEP generates an alert for each excessive length of stay detected.

Specific technical topics include:

Intelligent Event Processor (IEP) (Time-Based Window, Relation Aggregator, Correlator / Filter)
BPEL orchestration
File BC for ADT record input
BPEL process invokes IEP via HTTP binding component
IEP uses File BC for output
Service Engines: BPEL, IEP
Binding Components: HTTP, File

3. Exploring Sun MDM Suite: Open ESB and Mural Technology (V 1.0) – 111 pages – November 6, 2008
This tutorial explores a health care scenario where multiple patient master databases exist containing duplicate and inconsistent patient information. A patient master index is defined and a patient application is generated that stores its master index in MySQL, provides a web-based interface to maintain index records, surfaces web services that can be called by other applications to do programmatic access to the index records and supports a JMS topic to broadcast master index changes to other hospital applications.

Specific technical topics include:

Defining patient data model
Establishing MySQL tables
BPEL process feeding index via web service call
BPEL process “listening” on JMS topic for index updates
Using Master Index Data Manager web app
Service Engines: BPEL
Binding Components: File, JMS

Errata:  If you have trouble with this version of the tutorial, please see these errata notes.  Thanks to all who have provided feedback. I’ll address these issues/comments in the next version of the tutorial.

— Tom Barrett

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Jan 08

Java CAPS Basics Book – Project Exports Archive

By Michael Czapski Sun 4 Comments »

The Archive, “__Book_20061221_1320_512_with_Env.zip“, contains all (I think) projects featured in the book “Java CAPS Basics – Implementing Common EAI Patterns”, ISBN-13 978-0-13-713071-9, whether in Part I or in Part II (which is on the CD that accompanies the hardcopy book).

See Note JavaCAPSBasics_ProjectExports_Archive.pdf for additional details, including project hierarchy and prerequisite Java CAPS components.

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Jan 08

HL7 Processor Example – Development Screencast

By Michael Czapski Sun 2 Comments »

The Note “HL7 Processor Demonstration – Java CAPS 6/JBI and OpenESB” walks the reader through development of a Java CAPS 6/JBI-based / OpenESB-based solution that addresses a Healthcare-related business problem. The Note elaborates on the healthcare background necessary to get a notion of what is being done and why, and provides detailed steps required to implement and exercise the solution.

I recorded a screencast of a session during which I discuss the business side of the Note, then discuss, implement, deploy and exercise all components of the solution documented in the Note.

The screencast is here: HL7Processor_Exercise_Screencast.avi. The associated archive, 00_HL7Processor_example_screencast_companion.zip, contains code fragments and other bits and pieces which are used, or referred to, in the screencast. Of some interest are the Note itself, in documents/00_HL7_Example_Development_Instructions_Final.pdf, and the brief example implementation instructions, in documents/00_HL7_ExampleBrief.pdf. I followed the brief instructions while I was building the projects when recording the screencast.

The screencast, which is over 320 Mb in size and takes 2 hours and 50 minutes to play, may require a TechSmith Compression Codec on your machine to allow your player to play the media. You can get one from the TechSmith site: http://www.techsmith.com/download/codecs.asp. Information on the codec can also be found here: http://www.movavi.com/codec/TSCC.html. If you prefer, and you are on Windows, you can get the CamPlay.exe from here: CamPlay.zip and use it instead.

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Jan 01

HL7 Processor Demonstration – Java CAPS 6/JBI and OpenESB

By Michael Czapski Sun 16 Comments »

This Note walks the reader through development of a Java CAPS 6/JBI-based / OpenESB-based solution that addresses a Healthcare-related business problem. The Note elaborates on the healthcare background necessary to get a notion of what is being done and why, and provides detailed steps required to implement and exercise the solution to the business problem.

Updated note, where GlassFsish ESB v2.1 is used instead of Java CAPS 6, is available at 00_HL7_Example_Development_Instructions_Final_1.1.2.pdf

We will use the HL7 Binding Component, the File Binding Component, the JMS Binding Component, the SOAP/HTTP Binding Component, the BPEL 2.0 Service Engine, the JavaEE Service Engine, the HL7 Encoder and EJB-based Web Services in a JBI-based solution.

In the process we will create XML Schema Documents (XSDs), Web Services Description Language Documents (WSDLs), a BPEL 2.0 Business Process, an EJB-based “Implementation First” web service, an EJB- and WSDL-based “Interface First” web service, a bunch of Composite Applications, BPLE 2.0 mapping, BPEL 2.0-based Web Service orchestration, on-the-fly conversion of HL7 version 2.3.1 delimited messages to their XML equivalents. We will get a pretty good exposure to what OpenESB and Java CAPS 6/JBI components look like, how they work and how they can be used to create real business solutions. Above all, we will develop and test a solution that is more sophisticated then the customary “Hello World” examples but not so complex as to take too long to build and become too hard to comprehend by a novice user.

The particular business problem and the particular solution came about because once upon a time there was intent to build a series of related OpenESB projects – HL7 Processor, MDM Processor and IEP Processor – that would:

  • receive HL7 v2.x delimited messages
  • convert HL7 v2.x messages to their equivalent XML format
  • split message stream into ADT A01s, ADT A03s and other
  • convert A01s to an abbreviated Custom Patient XML format
  • convert A03s to an abbreviated Custom Discharge format
  • send Custom Patients to a JMS Queue for processing by a MDM solution
  • send Custom Discharges to a JMS Queue for processing by an IEM solution
  • have the MDM process Custom Patients into a Master Patient Index
  • have the IEP process Custom Discharges to flag excessive length of stay

The MDM Processor and the IEP Processor made it to the Sun CEC 2008 as demonstrations, with associated Tutorials by Tom Barrett, and demonstration recordings by me. The HL7 Processor did not make it. With the appearance of Java CAPS 6 Update 1 more JBI components made it into the officially supported Sun product. While the HL7 BC and the HL7 Encoder did not make it into this Update they will, eventually. Both components are already available from the OpenESB site and can be installed into the Java CAPS 6 Update 1 installation as unsupported components. This is what we will do for this Note.

The complete Note is to be found here.

The archive containing supplementary material you can use to save yourself the trouble of downloading component and, above all else, containing test files with HL7 delimited records, is here.

For these interested in processing HL7 using GlassFish ESB v2.1 there is a blog entry, “GlassFish ESB v2.1, MySQL v5.1 – Make HL7 v2.3.1 Delimited Messages from Custom Delimited Records with HL7 Encoder“, which discusses, amongst other things, how to create a custom HL7 v2 ADT A04 XSD and a “match any” XSD.

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