AIA Foundation Pack

What is the buzz?
AIA(Application Integration Architecture) Foundation Pack is a set of prebuilt enterprise objects and services coupled with a robust integration management infrastructure intended to expedite the development of integration solutions. Further, by adopting salient and time-tested best practises and industry standards, your entire portfolio of IT services can be integrated within the perview of changes and new requirements therey lending flexibility and adaptability to your business.

Components of the AIA Foundation Pack
The pack comprises of the following:

• Enterprise Business Objects
• Enterprise Business Services
• SOA Governance Tools
• Reference Architecture

Enterprise Business Objects

A Business object is a data model representing any recognizable business entity like customer, purchase order etc. It containts all the meta data and definitions pertaining to an entity in the form of XSDs.

Enterprise Business Services

Enterprise business services are implementation of a certain business task that have been exposed as web services so that they can be readily consumed over the internet by consumers. Usually your integrated environment will have a pool of enterprise business services with BPEL orchestrating the interaction patteren among them

SOA Governance

To ensure an end to end management of your integration solution, the Foundation Pack comes with a set of tools.

• Business Service Repository: This is a directory that lists all the services and objects avaialable in your IT ecosystem.
• Composite Application Validation System: This tool enables you to test your business process independent of the partner process. By providing an environment that simulates the real business scenario, you can do an end to end testing of the services you create
• Composite Application Error Management and Resolution: It provides an enhanced error management and resolution facility where errors are routed to the intended recepients so that corrective measures can be taken. The result is low downtime.

Reference Architecture

To enable and assist developers there are two guides available that provides a step by step approach to build your custom solutions using AIA.