I recently had a great discussion with Wendy Nather from the 451 Analyst Group. She had found one of my previous posts on using a service gateway to protect against the OWASP Top 10 and had some follow up questions. I wanted to share some of the discussion as well as her questions because it really got me thinking more about Enterprise application architecture and security.
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Beyond the Simple Proxy: Using a Service Gateway to Secure the Extended Enterprise with Bi-Directional Protocol Handling
Large Enterprises face a constant challenge in balancing technology costs with new business goals. Many enterprises have existing business processes bound up in applications that communicate using ‘legacy’ protocols such as FTP and MQ, which were really designed for behind the firewall operation in a trusted network. Given these constraints what’s the best way for a large Enterprise to extend these applications to external customers and partners without relying on an expensive re-engineering effort or concentrating risk in a single vendor?
Applying a Service Gateway architecture to integrating your e-Invoicing
I was recently asked to talk at the European eInvoicing and eBilling conference about better ways to integrate the transfer of e Invoicing and e billing into existing applications and security solutions. By the way, it was held in Munich and, if you go, definitely check out the surfing at the south end of the Englischer Garten.
How to extend XSLT using built in extension functions.
XSLT 2.0 and to some extent 1.0 are powerful languages when it comes to transforming documents and even for performing some tasks. But, as is often the case, to do something odd or unusual can often be impenetrable or just plain difficult. One of the advantages of using Intel® SOA Expressway is that most of the extension functions we have written to make configuration easier for BPEL based workflow are also available to the XSLT developer.
Integration of Altova's MapForce Data Mappings Into SOA Expressway
Altova is well known for it's flagship product XMLSpy - as anyone who has worked extensively with XML data can tell you. However, they have an entire suite of product offerings, one of which is MapForce. As described on it's website:
Practical Application of Data Convergence
A typical Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) accepts data from an array of disparate sources. Often the data it accepts is semantically and syntactically altered by a providing system to satisfy interfacing requirements. However, there are also cases where data from different sources need to be properly merged before reaching the HIE's interface.
Proof-of-Concept with Financial Systems
For the past 7 weeks I worked on my first Proof-Of-Concept (POC) for a financial system corporation. The initial scope of the work revolved around using SOA Expressway primarily as rapid & high performance secure integration product.
Updated Resource Translator Tool
Just a quick note to say that I just updated the Manageability Resource Translator Tool so that it now supports translating generic XML files.SOA Expressway XSLT 2.0 Processor Available for Download
December 2012: This WhatIf project has been retired, but will remain here for reference.
XSLT 2.0: Regular Expression Functions and Instructions
XSLT 2.0: Regular expressions
One of the weaknesses in XSLT 1.0 was the very simple set of string manipulation features. In comparison to many popular programming languages, the string functions lacked one very powerful feature, regular expressions. Intel SOA Expressway actually offers this functionality with extension functions for our customer base. In XSLT 2.0, the XSLT working group plugged this hole for everyone in a couple of ways that we’ll look at in this post.
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