Unlike many books on SOA, it is not focused on architecture, but discusses practical aspects of SOA and WS-BPEL development with many examples, showing you how to apply architecture in practice.
In SOA, Web Services are part of a business process determining the logical order of Service Activities – logical units of work performed by one or more services. Today the most popular tool for organizing service activities into business processes is Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL).
A graphical WS-BPEL tool like ActiveBPEL Designer can significantly simplify defining a business process with WS-BPEL.

Composing Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions with PHP and Open-Source ActiveBPEL
• Build Web Services with PHP
• Combine PHP Web Services into orchestrations with WS-BPEL
• Use better WS-BPEL to enable parallel processing and asynchronous communication
• Simplify WS-BPEL development with free graphical tool ActiveBPEL Designer

What you will learn from this book?
• Install and configure the software components required to build PHP Web Services and then combine them into WS-BPEL solutions
• Use PHP as the underlying technology for creating building blocks for SOAs
• Build data-centric services based on MySQL or Oracle Database XE
• Secure services built with PHP SOAP extension
• Combine fine-grained services built with PHP into coarse-grained ones with WS-BPEL
• Deploy WS-BPEL process services to ActiveBPEL open-source engine
• Simplify WS-BPEL development with ActiveBPEL Designer
• Implement asynchronous interactions between WS-BPEL processes

Approach

With the help of many examples, the book explains how to build Web Services with PHP, combine them into SOAs with WS-BPEL, and then deploy composite WS-BPEL-based solutions to the ActiveBPEL engine. The examples in this book are presented in a way that anyone can understand and apply.

What This Book Covers
Chapter 1. Web Services, SOA, and WS-BPEL Technologies is an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the service-oriented technologies used throughout the book, explaining how these technologies can be utilized in a complementary way.
Chapter 2. SOAP Servers and Clients with PHP SOAP Extension begins with a simple example on how to use the PHP SOAP Extension to build a service requestor and service provider, using the request-response message exchange pattern. Then, it moves on to a complicated case study showing how the predefined classes of the PHP SOAP Extension can be extended when implementing complex message exchange patterns.
Chapter 3. Designing Data-Centric Web Services explains how to use the two most popular databases today, MySQL and Oracle, when building data-centric Web services, and how to move some part of the web service logic into the database to benefit from distributing the processing between the web/PHP and database servers.
Chapter 4. Building Web Services Applications shows how to combine a set of services into a composition without defining an orchestration process. It also provides an example of how message-level security can be implemented in a Web services application.
Chapter 5. Composing SOA Solutions with WS-BPEL discusses how to leverage the concepts behind service orientation with WS-BPEL, with an emphasis on how to implement service-oriented orchestrations. It shows how you can achieve better reusability by shredding business process logic into a series of primitive activities.
Chapter 6. ActiveBPEL Designer explains in detail how to compose service-oriented solutions with ActiveBPEL Designer—a free, fully-functional, graphical tool for WS‑BPEL process design, debugging, and simulation.
Chapter 7. WS-BPEL Process Modeling focuses on how to implement parallel processing of activities within a WS-BPEL process. It also discusses asynchronous communication as an efficient way to call partner services without blocking the execution of the calling WS-BPEL process.
Appendix A. Setting Up Your Working Environment walks through the steps needed to install and configure the software components required to follow the book examples.
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In Detail: Even if you find writing PHP code easy, writing code that is efficient and easy to maintain and reuse is not so straightforward. Self-taught PHP developers and programmers transitioning from other languages often lack the knowledge to work with PHP on an enterprise level. They need to take their PHP development skills to that level by learning the skills and tools necessary to write maintainable and efficient code.
This book will enable you to take your PHP development skills to an enterprise level by teaching you the skills and tools necessary to write maintainable and efficient code. You will learn how to perform activities such as unit testing, enforcing coding standards, automating deployment, and interactive debugging using tools created for PHP developers – all the information in one place. Your code will be more maintainable, efficient, and self-documented.
From the design phase to actually deploying the application, you will learn concepts and apply them using the best-of-breed tools available in PHP.
Experienced developers looking for expertise in PHP development will learn how to follow best practices within the world of PHP. The book contains many well-documented code samples and recipes that can be used as a starting point for producing quality code.
Specifically, you will learn to design an application with UML, code it in Eclipse with PDT, document it with phpDocumentor, debug it interactively with Xdebug, test it by writing PHPUnit tests, manage source code in Subversion, speed up development and increase stability by using Zend Framework, pull everything together using continuous integration, and deploy the application automatically with Phing – all in one book. The author’s experience in PHP development enables him to share insights on using enterprise tools, in a clear and friendly way.
An in-depth look at best-of-breed enterprise-level tools, methodologies, and tips for professional PHP developers to write maintainable, efficient code

What you will learn from this book
Set up a development environment that provides code completion, syntax highlighting, interactive debugging, code templates, and more
Define a coding standard and automate compliance checks
Generate developer documentation in various formats using code-level comments and phpDocumentor
Manage revision and branching, tag, and merge code using a distributed version control system
Create your own debugging library and use Xdebug for interactive debugging
Shorten the development cycle by leveraging a suitable framework for your application
Write unit tests using PHPUnit and practice test-driven development
Automate application deployment and configuration using Phing – a PHP build and automation tool
Sketch class diagrams, sequence diagrams, and use cases using UML
Quickly find bugs and conflicts by setting up a continuous integration environment that automatically stages, tests, and documents your project

Approach
Each chapter focuses on one topic, such as version control or debugging. After initially discussing essential concepts, the author takes an in-depth look at one or more tools relevant to the topic. Sample projects and plenty of well-documented code are used to work through practical application of the concepts.

Who this book is written for
This book has been written for professional developers new to PHP and experienced PHP developers who want to take their skills to the next level by learning enterprise-level tools and techniques.

About the Author
Dirk Merkel is the owner of Waferthin Web Works LLC. In his spare time, he likes to ruin perfectly good open-source projects by submitting unsolicited patches. He also writes about Web development. He lives in San Diego with his lovely wife and two wonderful daughters.

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