Scarcely any environment is the subject of as much talk and as little action as the area of service-oriented architectures (SOA). The daenet SOA Suite now offers flexible entry opportunities based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.

The daenet SOA-Suite: SOA based on Microsoft .NET framework 4.0

Business Values

• Simple process recognition
• Greater flexibility of internal processes
• Simplified service management 
• Shorter response times to new requirements

Technical highlights

• Central service registry    
• WPF-based administration console
• Dynamic policy negotiation
• Automatic configuration of participants
• Based on WCF and SOAP
• Policy-based auditing
• Built-in policies und custom policies
• Integrated service bus

What is SOA?

There are many misunderstandings about what SOA actually is. SOA is not a product which can be purchased, but rather a concept and principle according to which IT and application structures can be efficiently aligned to business processes. In this integrated model each resource, regardless of whether it is an application, system or trading partner, can be reached as a service and therefore can be addressed by other applications and services. This principle of loose coupling significantly increases IT agility and flexibility.

What is daenet SOA Suite?

daenet SOA Suite solves the basic problem of SOA governance and is therefore a fundamental component of service-oriented architecture. All relevant properties for a service are stored in a central service registry. Each consumer can therefore retrieve any chosen service at the desired quality (QoS). The SOA governance product offers a graphical interface based on the most up-to-date Microsoft technologies.

The daenet SOA Suite is an infrastructure in which SOA capabilities are added to services. It consists of a collection of .NET tools and libraries which expand communication between the services with many SOA-relevant capabilities. In this way it enables centralised administration and configuration of services, policies and quality-of-service properties. On this basis, thousands of participants can be configured without having to roll out the entire configuration each time.

The daenet service bus

The daenet service bus enables a content-based distribution of messages between multiple participants who require different protocols or do not have a public IP address, or are even located behind a firewall.

Daenet Service bus functionality

The daenet service bus allows for the explicit separation of participants, which is one of the most important prerequisites for implementing service-oriented architectures. In this way, a participant could for example send a message to interested subscribers who want to be notified when a new product comes into stock. The sender of this message could be a WCF-capable client application, from which the message is sent in unencrypted form using HTTP. The recipient, namely the subscriber of the message, receives the message over an HTTPS protocol, for example. Another subscriber may be using a TCP protocol. Using the daenet service bus, it is possible for any SOA-capable applications to communicate with each other. In addition to performing this ‘intermediary’ function, the daenet service bus can also send messages to services which are behind a firewall, which in turn leads to a number of new innovative solutions which until now could only be implemented at great cost.