The presentation supported Antonietta Miele's speech at ECLIPSE-IT (30th Sept - 1st Oct 2010 - Savona, Itay), the fifth yearly meeting of the Eclipse Italian Community which includes both Universities and Industries.

1. Equinox
the adoption of the OSGi standard in enterprise
solutions
Savona, 30th September 2010 Antonietta Miele
Research & Innovation Division
Engineering Group
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2. What are we going to talk about ?
 Introduction of two Eclipse Projects made by Engineering Group, built
over Equinox:
 eBPM
 eBAM
 OSGi features used by eBAM & eBPM
 Some case studies on eBPM and eBAM adoption in enterprise projects
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3. The complete BPM solution for OSGi
 eBPM (eclipse Business Process Management) is the Universal Middleware for the
governance and realization of SOA solutions, which are highly modular and configurable around
an OSGi kernel
 eBPM is the core of the open source project
 Features:
 Platform independence
 Code reusability for different goals and
containers
www.spagic.org
 Management of the lifecycle of different
business and infrastructural components
 Configuration and start-up of single
modules, in order to realize the most
suitable solution for each project.
www.eclipse.org/ebpm
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4. eBPM Architecture
 Some eBPM components are the OSGi Bundles that can leverage the capabilities of OSGi
Declarative Services, providing a common way to define/develop OSGi services.
 Other eBPM components, once combined, allow process orchestration and communication
between services and connectors
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5. a runtime BAM platform for OSGi
 eBAM (extended Business Activity Monitoring) is an advanced platform for the
monitoring of heterogeneous services and applications and the historical analysis of data
 eBAM is integrated in the open source project
 Features:
 Real-time data management
 Settlement of governance rules, by
defining events and services thresholds
www.spagobi.org
 Settlement of alarms and SLA
 Recovery of external messages
 Sending of notifications to external systems or
actors.
www.eclipse.org/ebam
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6. eBAM Architecture
 All eBAM modules are OSGi Bundles that dynamically interact in order to analyze different
data coming from heterogeneous sources.
 eBAM architecture may include different elaboration data engines, dynamically linked to the
architecture
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7. Components and Services in eBAM and eBPM
 eBPM services and connectors and eBAM modules are implemented using the Components
Model
 each component can provide some services and refer to others
 the declarative services are used to build eBAM modules and eBPM services, so as to ensure
the most dynamic behaviour of eBPM /eBAM services
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8. eBPM services for Orchestration
eBPM Normalized Message Router
eBPM Normalized Message Router Normalized Message Router
 it is the only responsible for the
Message exchange between
components.
OSGi EventAdmin
OSGi EventAdmin  Internally, it is based on the OSGi
EventAdmin Service.
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9. Event Admin for communication
 Services interact with messages
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10. ECF EventAdmin Service
 Use of ECF Distributed EventAdmin Service for communication between services in different
nodes
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11. ECF EventAdmin Service
eBPM Normalized
eBPM Normalized eBPM Normalized
eBPM Normalized
Message Router 11
Message Router Message Router 22
Message Router
OSGi Distributed
OSGi Distributed OSGi Distributed
OSGi Distributed
EventAdmin
EventAdmin EventAdmin
EventAdmin
Message Persistence Queue
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12. eBPM Deployment models
Lite Node
 eBPM Lite Node
 all services run on a single node containing
the eBPM middleware
 based on Equinox Event Admin
OSGi Service Container
 eBPM Enterprise
Enterprise Node
 eBPM services run on different nodes and
different middleware
 based on ECF Distributed EventAdmin ESB ESB
Service
OSGi Service Container
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13. eBPM Service for Monitoring
 Based on EventAdmin
 an eBPM Service subscript to each topic recognizes the sender and the receiver and stores all
the messages
 it contributes to build a knowledge base that can be used to feed a Data Warehouse or a
monitoring system.
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14. eBPM Business Case : SIURP
The Open Source Integration Platform SOA/BPM Spagic, whose core
is constituted by eBPM, is the integration platform which the system
Organization
Regione Calabria is built on. It manages all the business processes. The workflow also
includes the activities to be manually executed.
Market
Public
Status
Public Government
The SIURP is the Regional United Information System for the Development,
Mission Management and Monitoring of public investments and related assistance
To improve local public
services.
services
Objective SIURP is a management system of the most important public investment
To provide relationship programs, including the fund resources left by the previous investment programs. The
and services for all system can manage all business processes until the single step operation, respecting
territorial resources.
the European and Italian guidelines and interacting with their monitoring system.
Country
Italy
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15. eBAM Business Case : Monitoring REMEDES
eBAM is the activity monitoring platform of the REMEDES application.
It manages all the raw information extracted by various nodes,
normalizing information in messages and using a customized engine
Organization
an Italian Region to extract events through specific rules. It also stores events and
generates alarms. Moreover, it builds the knowledge base for the open
Market
source Business Intelligence suite SpagoBI.
Public
Status
Public government
Mission REMEDES
To improve standardization
Objective
REMEDES is the unified reservation system used by a local public health company.
To provide a solution for It is used by citizens and employees to manage reservations. It is built by different
cooperation process and reservation systems in different places. It collaborates with them in order to verify the
support new service by availability of the reservation.
component composition.
Country
Italy
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16. …towards a complete interaction standard for the whole IT infrastructure
 Universal Middleware
 Versioning
 Security
Organization
 Shearing & Collaboration
an Italian Region
 Standard
Market  Governance
Public
Status
Public government
Mission
To improve
standardization
Objective
To provide a solution for
cooperation process and
support new service by
component composition.
Country
Italy
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17. For more informations…..
 … about the Open Source Projects :
 Spagic3 : www.spagic.org/
 SpagoBI : www.spagobi.org/
 … about the Eclipse Projects :
 eBPM : www.eclipse.org/ebpm/
 eBAM : www.eclipse.org/ebam/
Antonietta Miele : antonietta.miele@eng.it
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