Sep 18

GlassFish ESB, v2.1 – Exploring Effects of Security Policies, Rev.0.2, More SSL and EJB-based projects

By Michael Czapski Sun No Comments »

In this document I explore the effects of selected web services security policies on SOAP message exchange in the GlassFish ESB v2.1.

This is a work-in-progress document, now at rev 0.2.

To provide early access I intend to release revisions of this document as significant new sections become available.

Revision 0.1: Content
* Assumptions and Notes
* Person Service XML Schema and WSDL Interface
* Common XML Project
* PersonSvc BPEL Module
* PersonCli BPEL Modules
* Person Service – Plain End-to-End
* Person Service – SSL with Server-side Authentication

Revision 0.2:Added Content
•    JBI-based Person Service – SSL with Mutual Authentication (broken)
•    EJB-based Person Service – No security
•    EJB-based Person Service – SSL with Server-side Authentication

More in CH05_WSSecurityExploration_r0.2.3.pdf at https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/CH05_WSSecurityExploration_r0.2.3.pdf.

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Sep 16

GlassFish ESB v2.1 – Excessive length of Stay Healthcare IEP Demonstration

By Michael Czapski Sun No Comments »

As a healthcare enterprise looks after patients, information is gathered about various events that take place. Information about notable events, Admissions and Discharges, for example, is recorded in Hospital Information Systems or Patient Administration Systems. These systems typically broadcast event information in a form of HL7 messages for use by other enterprise systems, for example laboratory or diagnostic imaging. A stream of HL7 messages can be intercepted and processed to derive all sorts of interesting information.

The solution developed in this walkthrough deals with Excessive Length of Stay. Length of stay is defined as the period between patient’s admission to and discharge from the hospital. Statistical average expected length of stay is typically available for different kinds of patients presenting with different kinds of conditions. A significant variation from the average length of stay for specific patients may indicate complications, treatment errors, infections and other kinds of issues that the hospital needs to investigate. Notification of such incidents may help the hospital in addressing these issues and prevent future occurrences.

In this solution the Intelligent Event Processor is used to calculate the continuously updated average length of stay over a period of time and use it to compare against each event’s length of stay. It passes, to the downstream component, all events where the length of stay exceeds the average by 1 ½ times and ignores all others.

In the initial iteration, the solution reads a stream of discharge messages, containing admission date, discharge date, length of stay, and a bunch of other fields from a file and passes them to the IEP process. The IEP process keeps the window on the last 10 seconds worth of records and continuously calculates the average length of stay over all records in that window. As records are added to and removed from the window the average is recalculated. As each record is seen its length of stay is compared to the average length of stay of all records in the window at the time. If the length of stay in the current record is less then or equal to 1 ½ times the average at the same time the record is discarded. If the average is greater the record is ejected to the output and ultimately written to a file of exception records.

In a subsequent iteration the solution is modified to accept messages from a JMS Queue. This modification allows the solution to use the stream of discharge messages produced by the HL7 Processor solution, discussed in “HL7 Processor Demonstration – GlassFish ESB v2.1”, https://blogs.czapski.id.au/?p=23.

In a further modification the solution is configured to send notification messages to another JMS Queue. Notification messages are processed by a different solution and sent to an email recipient.

The document, “Excessive length of Stay Healthcare IEP Demonstration”, can be found at https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Combinned_Intelligent_Event_Processor_Demonstration_v1.0.pdf

The pre-built projects in the “Excessive length of Stay Healthcare IEP Demo Companion Archive” can be found at https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Healthcare_Demo_Combined_v1.0.zip

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Sep 07

GlassFish ESB, v2.1 – Exploring Effects of Security Policies, Rev.0.1, SSL with Server-side Authentication

By Michael Czapski Sun No Comments »

In this document I explore the effects of selected web services security policies on SOAP message exchange in the GlassFish ESB v2.1.

This is a work-in-progress document.

To provide early access I intend to release revisions of this document as significant new sections become available.

Revision 0.1: Content

  • Assumptions and Notes
  • Person Service XML Schema and WSDL Interface
  • Common XML Project
  • PersonSvc BPEL Module
  • PersonCli BPEL Modules
  • Person Service – Plain End-to-End
  • Person Service – SSL with Server-side Authentication

More in CH05_WSSecurityExploration_r0.1.pdf, at https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/CH05_WSSecurityExploration_r0.1.pdf

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Sep 04

St.Vincent’s Web Results project – a trip to the World Wide Web museum

By Michael Czapski Personal No Comments »

Way back, when the Web was young and the number of World Wide Web sites in the whole World was counted in thousands, I built Australia’s first Web-based Diagnostic Results Reporting application. St.Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, where I worked then, had the benefit of it for a bunch of years after I left for greener pastures. It has long since been superseded by something better, slicker and more modern. Today’s state of the art is tomorrow’s museum piece …

While I am not usually given to bragging, I am proud of the application all the same, when I remember that it happened, which is not very often at all. It was recalled to me by a couple of people whom I met after a very long time, in the last couple of weeks, so I though I will see if the conference paper I submitted to the First Asia-Pacific World Wide Web Conference, held in Sydney in 1995, is still on line. Alas, Charles Sturt University, which, until about 6 months ago, hosted the conference papers, no longer hosts them. I am still amazed that it hosted them for so many years – more then 10 – and only now retired the site.

To preserve the paper for a bit longer, and show what the state of the art in web design looked like in 1995, I uploaded the paper to the blog site. Here it is, “St.Vincent’s Hospital Sydney – WebResults Project”: https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/for_blog_mczapski1.html. Some pictures are irretrievably gone – I don’t have the original material so some links are broken.

For these who are too young to remember, in 1993, when I started the project

  • The only way to design web pages was using a text editor and typing HTML (which graduated to version 2.0 half way through the project)
  • There was no such thing as Internet Explorer – in fact Microsoft was in the middle of creating “The Microsoft Network” in competition to the Internet – it never went very far
  • There was no such thing a Netscape Navigator – the only graphical web browser in existence was the Mosaic Browser from the National Center for Suppercomputing Applications (NCSA). A couple of the guys who built the Mosaic browser left to start Netscape and made a mint on it
  • There were two kinds of web servers – the CERN httpd and the NCSA httpd. The NCSA httpd eventually became the Appache Web Server
  • The only way for a Windows machine to connect to the Internet was to install the Trumpet Winsock TCP/IP stack, which Peter Tattam from Tasmania released to the World
  • There was no commercial anything on the Internet, no sites, no adds, no cookies,…
  • It was in 1995 at the First Asia-Apcific World Wide Web Conference in Sydney that I first saw Java and the HotJava Browser – while Java is still with us the HotJava Browser never go very far.

These were interesting days …

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Sep 04

HL7 Processor Demonstration – GlassFish ESB v2.1

By Michael Czapski Sun 2 Comments »

This Note walks the reader through development of a GlassFish ESB v2.1based 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.

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.

This note is an update, for GlassFish ESB v2.1, of the original note  “HL7 Processor Demonstration – Java CAPS 6/JBI and OpenESB”, to be found at https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/00_HL7_Example_Development_Instructions_Final.pdf.

Updated note is available at https://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/00_HL7_Example_Development_Instructions_Final_1.1.2.pdf

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