Service-Orientated Architectures and XML

The implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has significant potential to improve the benefits that organisations derive from their IT investments, in terms of increased flexibility, improved use of assets, alignment with business objectives, and reduced integration costs.

The Butler Group, SOA Masterclass, October 2006

What are the challenges?

SOA may deliver improved flexibility, agility and business responsiveness, but it comes at a cost;

Vast increases in network traffic arise as the many discrete SOA components exchange lengthy XML dialogues with each other;
Different risks of fragility: although each component should be simple, reliable and self contained, the explosion of interdependencies means that any one failure amongst the multitude of components can ripple through rapidly;
Traffic management and visualization: how can an administrator track and debug traffic, maintain reliability when components are upgraded or relocated, and ensure that each request is routed to the most appropriate component at any time?

Use ZXTM!

ZXTM is ideal for managing complex SOA traffic. Full transaction inspection and full XML awareness (including XPath searching, XSLT transformation and DTD/Scheme validation) means that ZXTM has the capability to inspect, manipulate and route all HTTP-bourne SOAP transactions.

ZXTM's powerful application acceleration capabilities are fully applicable to SOA environments, accelerating transactions and reducing the I/O burden on each SOA component.

Find out more...

What is a Service Delivery Controller?
A Service Delivery Controller is an XML-aware traffic management device such as ZXTM, used to manage traffic within an SOA environment.
Building a Service Oriented Network using an SDC.
A Service Oriented Network provides the reliability, acceleration and management capabilities required to support SOA applications.