"After seven months of work we were so convinced about their ability to implement applications that we decided to build two additional systems with VentureSoftGlobal. VentureSoftGlobal always understood firmly the requirements and were able to implement the applications. The quality of project management and implementation of the systems were excellent."

- CIO of MNC steel manufacturer

• WebSphere Process Server is a service-oriented architecture (SOA) integration platform built on a uniform invocation programming model and a uniform data representation model.
• WebSphere Process Server is the ideal platform for business applications that require business integration using different technologies.
• The base runtime infrastructure for WebSphere Process Server is WebSphere Application Server. The Service Component Architecture and business objects that are part of the SOA core provide uniform invocation and data-representation programming models.
• The SOA core includes
  • Common Event Infrastructure for generating events for the monitoring and mannagement of applications running on WebSphere Process Server.
  • Supporting services provide the foundational business object and transformation framework for WebSphere Process Server
  • Service components represent the functional components required for composite application
• The combination of a powerful foundation (WebSphere Application Server and the SOA Core) and Service Components in WebSphere Process Server allows quick development and deployment of sophisticated composite applications that run on WebSphere Process Server.
• The following figure is a typical example of the service-oriented architecture. It shows how a service consumer sends a service request to a service provider. After accepting the request, service provider send a message to the service consumer. In this case a service provider can also be a service consumer.

• SOA is much different from point-to-point architectures.
• SOA comprise loosely coupled, highly interoperable application services.
• These services can be developed in different development technologies (such as Java, .NET, C++, PERL, PHP), the software components become very reusable i.e. the same C# (C Sharp) service may be used by a Java application and / or any other programming language. WSDL defines an standard, which encapsulates / hides the vendor / language specific implementation from the calling client / service