The Patterns for e-business are a group of proven, reusable assets that can be used to increase the speed of developing and deploying Web applications. This IBM Redbooks publication focuses on how the Self-Service and Extended Enterprise business patterns, and the Application Integration pattern, can be used to start implementing solutions using the service-oriented architecture approach.

We guide you through the process of selecting and applying Business, Application and Runtime patterns. Next, the platform-specific Product mappings are identified based upon the selected Runtime pattern.

We present guidelines for applying the Patterns and service-oriented architecture approach to a sample business scenario and for selecting Web services technologies.

We provide detailed design, development, and runtime guidelines for several scenarios, including synchronous and asynchronous service buses, UDDI service directory, and the Web Services Gateway.

This publication concludes with an examination of how a service-oriented architecture can provide a step in the direction of IBM’s e-business on-demand vision.

Chapter 1. Patterns for e-business

Chapter 2. Service-oriented architecture

Chapter 3. Service-oriented architecture and Patterns for e-business

Chapter 4. Service-oriented architecture approach

Chapter 5. Technology options

Chapter 6. HTTP service bus

Chapter 7. JMS service bus

Chapter 8. Service directory

Chapter 9. Web service gateway

Chapter 10. e-business on demand and Service-oriented architecture

Appendix A. Scenarios lab environment

Appendix B. Additional material