Project SCI-Flex is a venture towards the integration of SOA and CEP. This is the final project presentation for Project SCI-Flex, done on 29th January 2009, at the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa.

2. •SCI-FLEX IN ACTION
•WHY SCI-FLEX?
•WHAT IS SCI-FLEX?
•SCI-FLEX IMPLEMENTATION
•CHALLENGES OVERCOME
•MAJOR CAPABILITIES
•OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
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4. • MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF EVENTS OUT OF WHICH ONLY A VERY
SMALL AMOUNT IS USEFUL
• RAPIDLY CHANGING EVENT STREAM
• DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFY PATTERNS OR ANOMALIES AND
SPEEDY RESPONSE
• SCALABILITY & FLEXIBILITY
• INTEROPERABILITY AMONG DIFFERENT SYSTEMS
• MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION MEDIUMS
• CHANGE DYNAMICALLY & ADAPT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
REQUIREMENTS
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5. • MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF EVENTS OUT OF WHICH ONLY A VERY
SMALL AMOUNT IS USEFUL
• RAPIDLY CHANGING EVENT STREAM
• DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFY PATTERNS OR ANOMALIES AND
SPEEDY RESPONSE
COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING (CEP)
• SCALABILITY & FLEXIBILITY
• INTEROPERABILITY AMONG DIFFERENT SYSTEMS
• MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION MEDIUMS
• CHANGE DYNAMICALLY & ADAPT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
REQUIREMENTS
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6. • MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF EVENTS OUT OF WHICH ONLY A VERY
SMALL AMOUNT IS USEFUL
• RAPIDLY CHANGING EVENT STREAM
• DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFY PATTERNS OR ANOMALIES AND
SPEEDY RESPONSE
• SCALABILITY & FLEXIBILITY
• INTEROPERABILITY AMONG DIFFERENT SYSTEMS
• MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION MEDIUMS
• CHANGE DYNAMICALLY & ADAPT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
REQUIREMENTS
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7. • MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF EVENTS OUT OF WHICH ONLY A VERY
SMALL AMOUNT IS USEFUL
• RAPIDLY CHANGING EVENT STREAM
• DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFY PATTERNS OR ANOMALIES AND
SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA)
SPEEDY RESPONSE
• SCALABILITY & FLEXIBILITY
• INTEROPERABILITY AMONG DIFFERENT SYSTEMS
• MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION MEDIUMS
• CHANGE DYNAMICALLY & ADAPT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
REQUIREMENTS
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8. • MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF EVENTS OUT OF WHICH ONLY A VERY
SMALL AMOUNT IS USEFUL
• RAPIDLY CHANGING EVENT STREAM
• DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFY PATTERNS OR ANOMALIES AND
SPEEDY RESPONSE
• SCALABILITY & FLEXIBILITY
• INTEROPERABILITY AMONG DIFFERENT SYSTEMS
• MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION MEDIUMS
• CHANGE DYNAMICALLY & ADAPT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
REQUIREMENTS
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9. • MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF EVENTS OUT OF WHICH ONLY A VERY
ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS (ESB)
SMALL AMOUNT IS USEFUL
• RAPIDLY CHANGING EVENT STREAM
• DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFY PATTERNS OR ANOMALIES AND
SPEEDY RESPONSE
• SCALABILITY & FLEXIBILITY
• INTEROPERABILITY AMONG DIFFERENT SYSTEMS
• MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION MEDIUMS
• CHANGE DYNAMICALLY & ADAPT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
REQUIREMENTS
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10. • MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF EVENTS OUT OF WHICH ONLY A VERY
SMALL AMOUNT IS USEFUL
• RAPIDLY CHANGING EVENT STREAM
• DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFY PATTERNS OR ANOMALIES AND
SPEEDY RESPONSE
ESB
• SCALABILITY & FLEXIBILITY
• INTEROPERABILITY AMONG DIFFERENT SYSTEMS
• MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION MEDIUMS
• CHANGE DYNAMICALLY & ADAPT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
REQUIREMENTS
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11. FLEXIBLE INTEGRATION
OF
SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA)
AND
COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING (CEP)
CEP
ESB
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12. AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
INTELLIGENT TRADING PLATFORMS
NETWORK TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
TRANSPORTATION SERVICE MANAGEMENT
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13. • GREAT INTEREST TOWARDS THE MERGING OF SERVICE
ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE AND COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING
CONCEPTS
• IBM RESEARCH
• APACHE CAMEL ESPER PLUG-IN
• MULTITUDE OF OPPORTUNITY
• BENEFITS OF COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING IN EVENT DRIVEN
SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (EDA OVER SOA)
SYSTEMS
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14. • ENABLING COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING IN A
SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
• PROVIDING ENTERPRISE LEVEL EVENTING SUPPORT
• PROVIDE USERS WITH THE CAPABILITY TO EASILY
MANAGE AND MONITOR ALL ACTIVITY
• FLEXIBILITY, SCALABILITY, INTEROPERABILITY
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15. BACKEND
REGISTRY
FETCH
UNIFIED
ESPER
EXECUTE
EVENTS
EXTERNAL
SYNAPSE-ESPER CEP
UNIFY
EVENTS JMS TRANSPORT
MEDIATOR SYSTEM
WITH MAP EVENTS
MESSAGE SUPPORT
BROWSE
EDIT
SYNAPSE ESB
SYNAPSE-ESPER
MEDIATOR ADMIN UI
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16. • CONCURRENCY SUPPORT
• SIMPLE CONFIGURATION
BACKEND
• EASY SETUP AND DEPLOYMENT
REGISTRY
• TIGHT INTEGRATION WITH APACHE SYNAPSE
EXTERNAL EVENTS
UNIFIED
SYNAPSE-
EVENTS
• ROBUST AND EXTENSIBLE INTERFACE
ESPER ESPER
MEDIATOR
JMS
• HIGH PERFORMANCE, AND MAXIMUM USE OF
SYNAPSE ESB
APACHE SYNAPSE'S PERFORMANCE
ADMIN UI
CAPABILITIES
• FITS WELL FOR MATURE EVENTING & EVENT
DRIVEN INFRASTRUCTURES
• BACK-END REGISTRY WITH CACHING
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17. • PERSISTENT SUBSCRIPTIONS
• QUERY BASED EVENT FILTERING
BACKEND
REGISTRY
• XPATH / XQUERY
EXTERNAL EVENTS
•
UNIFIED
SQL LIKE QUERIES
SYNAPSE-
EVENTS
ESPER ESPER
• ESPER QUERIES
MEDIATOR
JMS
• UNIFICATION OF MULTIPLE EVENT TYPES INTO A
SYNAPSE ESB
ADMIN UI
SINGLE EVENT TYPE
• FLEXIBLE INTEGRATION WITH EXISTING SYSTEMS
• WSO2 ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS
• APACHE SYNAPSE ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS
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18. • FLEXIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE AND EASY
INTEGRATION TO EXISTING SYSTEMS.
BACKEND
• USEFULNESS SCOPES BEYOND THE DOMAIN OF
REGISTRY
EXTERNAL EVENTS
THE PROJECT
UNIFIED
SYNAPSE-
EVENTS
•
ESPER
FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE
ESPER
MEDIATOR
JMS
• RIGID INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE BASED ON
SYNAPSE ESB
WELL KNOWN DESIGN PATTERNS
ADMIN UI
• STRATEGY, TEMPLATE, BUILDER
• EASY TO LEARN SAMPLES PROVIDED
• CUSTOMIZABILITY BASED ON REQUIREMENTS
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19. • POWERFUL MAP MESSAGE HANDLING
BACKEND
CAPABILITY ADDED TO EXISTING JMS
REGISTRY
INFRASTRUCTURE
EXTERNAL EVENTS
UNIFIED
SYNAPSE-
• WORKS OUT OF THE BOX, WITH MINIMAL
EVENTS
ESPER ESPER
MEDIATOR
JMS
CONFIGURATION REQUIREMENTS
SYNAPSE ESB
• REUSE OF COMPONENTS THROUGH API
ADMIN UI
EXTENSION
• ITERATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE AGILE
DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY
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20. • JSP (JAVA SERVER PAGES) FRONTEND DRIVEN
BACKEND
BY WEB-SERVICE (BACKEND)
REGISTRY
• OSGI COMPLIANT
EXTERNAL EVENTS
UNIFIED
SYNAPSE-
• FLEXIBLE INTEGRATION WITH WSO2
EVENTS
ESPER ESPER
MEDIATOR
JMS
ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS 2.0 (FIRST 3RD
SYNAPSE ESB
PARTY COMPONENT FOR WSO2 ESB)
ADMIN UI
• LOGGING AND ANALYZING THE MEDIATOR
STATISTICS
• EASILY MANAGING THE SYNAPSE-ESPER
MEDIATION PROCESS
• MEDIATOR CONFIGURATION
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21. • WSO2 ESB 2.0 USER INTERFACE (CARBON FRAMEWORK
BASED )DEPENDENCY
• OSGI INTEGRATION
• JAVA MESSAGING SYSTEM SUPPORT
• LACK OF DOCUMENTATION ON UNDERLYING INFRASTRUCTURE
COMPONENTS
• WSO2 CARBON 1.0
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22. • USER INTERFACE FULLY DE-COUPLED FROM THE
UNDERLYING IMPLEMENTATION
• HIGH LEVEL OF SCALABILITY
• PERSISTENT SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT
• CONSISTENT USER INTERFACE THROUGHOUT THE
SYSTEM AND SEAMLESS INTEGRATION WITH SYNAPSE
ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS
• HIGH LEVEL OF RE-USE AND INTEGRATION OF
COMPONENTS
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23. • SCI-FLEX WAS INTRODUCED BY MR. PAUL FREMANTLE IN A
WEBINAR AS ONE OF THE MAJOR SYNERGIES OF SYNAPSE
ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS
• FIRST THIRD PARTY COMPONENT FOR WSO2 ESB 2.0
• MR. ASANKA ABEYSINGHE ALSO INCLUDED SCI-FLEX IN AN
ARTICLE ON FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE
• QUALITY CODING ENSURED BY THE APPLICATION OF GLOBALLY
RECOGNIZED STANDARDS
• COMPREHENSIVE WEBSITE (WWW.SCI-FLEX.ORG) WITH ALL
RESOURCES AND GUIDANCE
• 2 RESEARCH PAPERS RELATED TO SCI-FLEX; ‘COMPLEX EVENT
PROCESSING IN A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE -
BENEFITS’ &‘AUTONOMOUS EVENT DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE’
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24. • INTEGRATION OF SCI-FLEX COMPONENTS TO REAL-
WORLD PROJECTS
• XPATH QUERYING ACROSS HIERARCHICAL MAPS IN
JAXEN
• WS-TOPICS ENHANCEMENTS FOR EVENTING
• IMPROVING THE COVERAGE OF SAMPLES AND TESTS
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25. • PROJECT STATISTICS (HTTP://WWW.OHLOH.NET/P/SCIFLEX)
• 20000+ LOC
• 3+ PERSON YEARS ESTIMATED EFFORT (COCOMO MODEL )
• LICENSING:
• SCI-FLEX CORE COMPONENTS: APACHE 2.0 LICENSE,
• SCI-FLEX SYNAPSE-ESPER PLUG-IN: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 2.0
• ONLINE PRESENCE:
• GOOGLE CODE: HTTP://CODE.GOOGLE.COM/P/SCI-FLEX/
• MAIN PROJECT WEBSITE: HTTP://WWW.SCI-FLEX.ORG/
• GOOGLE GROUPS, MARKMAIL LIST ARCHIVES
• 100% OPEN SOURCE PROJECT UTILIZING AGILE METHODS
• AVAILABLE AS :
• SVN CHECKOUT
• WEB DOWNLOAD
• MAVEN REPOSITORY
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26. • DR. SHANTHA FERNANDO AND MR. INDIKA PERERA– DEPT. OF
COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA -
PROJECT COORDINATORS
• DR. SANJIVA WEERAWARANA, CEO OF WSO2 – COORDINATOR
• MR. PAUL FREMANTLE (CO-FOUNDER & CTO, WSO2) – MENTOR &
MAIN SUPERVISOR
• MR. ASANKA ABEYSINGHE (SOFTWARE ARCHITECT, WSO2)
• MR. SANJAYA KARUNASENA
• MRS. VISHAKA NANAYAKKARA, HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA
• PROF. GIHAN DIAS AND MR. CHAMARA DISANAYAKE, DEPARTMENT OF
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA – AID
IN OBTAINING RESOURCES FOR FINAL DEMONSTRATIONS
• MR. MAHENDRA PIRAVEENAN, MR. KISHAN WIMELAWARNE, AND MISS.
UPULI GUNASINGHE; , DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA – PROJECT EVALUATIONS
• ENTIRE STAFF OF CSE (ACADEMIC & NON-ACADEMIC)
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