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Enterprise Integration with ColdFusion

Sean A Corfield Director of Architecture Macromedia, Inc. Enterprise Integration with ColdFusion. Goals. Explain some of the history behind Macromedia's use of ColdFusion, both on the web and behind it Show you how Macromedia is using ColdFusion “behind the web” for integration tasks

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Enterprise Integration with ColdFusion

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  1. Sean A Corfield Director of Architecture Macromedia, Inc. Enterprise Integration with ColdFusion

  2. Goals Explain some of the history behind Macromedia's use of ColdFusion, both on the web and behind it Show you how Macromedia is using ColdFusion “behind the web” for integration tasks Inspire you to think outside the “web box” and look for new problems to solve with ColdFusion MX 7

  3. Who Am I? Senior Architect for Macromedia IT (since mid-2000) A ColdFusion developer (since late-2001) ...and Java developer (since early-1997) An advocate of standards and best practices (since birth?)

  4. Agenda Setting the scene – a brief history of macromedia.com A look at our Online Store architecture Introducing Oracle Applications (ERP) Additional systems join our Hub'n'Spoke world Evolving our Online Store architecture Upcoming changes and future plans Wrap-up

  5. macromedia.com BC Before ColdFusion... macromedia.com was built with BroadVision and Perl We created flat files full of CSV data and ran batch jobs to move those files around and load them into databases

  6. macromedia.com BC

  7. 2001 A ColdFusion Odyssey Macromedia acquired Allaire I formed Web Technology Group to rewrite macromedia.com using ColdFusion ColdFusion 5 was the (new) current release We learned ColdFusion on Neo using pre-alpha builds and then alphas and betas – it was “fun”... We also picked JMS (Java Message Service) and XML as core technologies for data transfer between the website and the various back end systems, using Java “adapters”

  8. macromedia.com – CFMX 6.0 U3 macromedia.com launched in early March 2003 on ColdFusion MX 6.0 Updater 3 About a dozen ColdFusion applications BroadVision still powered our Online Stores Perl still powered many of the simple information forms Later that year we launched the Flash / ColdFusion Online Stores for Europe with BroadVision for non-Flash users

  9. macromedia.com – CFMX 6.0 U3

  10. macromedia.com – CFMX 6.1 We were running Red Sky just before launch (August 2003) We adopted Mach II as the Web Team standard (2004) We continued to write more applications (currently around 50 applications, a quarter are Mach II apps) We launched HTML versions of our Online Stores and rolled them out worldwide (2003-2004) BroadVision was finally gone Some Perl forms remain (it ain't broke!)

  11. macromedia.com – CFMX 6.1

  12. Online Store Architecture I Tiered application architecture: Front end has both Flash & HTML versions Business logic implemented with ColdFusion (using the same CFCs, and Mach II for HTML version) Back end used Perl scripts to manage fulfilment and settlement functionality CSV (tab-delimited) files moved by FTP to ERP system

  13. Online Store Architecture I

  14. ERP – Oracle Applications Rolled out new ERP system (March 2004) Used OAGIS 7.2.1 standard XML for order management file exchanges (instead of CSV) Still FTP based batch jobs (since everything is file-based) Some vendors (including OLS) still provided CSV ColdFusion application written to manage all the XML and CSV file exchanges and automate the FTP processes

  15. ERP – Oracle Applications

  16. Breeze Live Online Sales 2004 also saw Breeze Live become available for purchase online as well as hosted solution Decided to leverage JMS rather than Online Store method Sales orders transmitted as XML over JMS in near real time Developed JMS event gateway for ColdFusion MX 7 Uses exactly the same order processing CFC as batch files

  17. Breeze Live Online Sales

  18. salesforce.com (late 2004) Implemented sf.com for sales leads Web site captures leads, publishes them using JMS Web Service adapters (.NET) exchange data with sf.com JMS used to exchange data between adapters and other systems: web site, support, marketing, analytics

  19. salesforce.com (spring 2005) We rewrote all of the .NET adapters in ColdFusion (.NET libraries from the JMS vendor were unreliable) Rough guesstimate: building adapters in CF is between four and eight times easier than either Java or .NET based on development times (Java and .NET are about par) Leverage the CFMX 7 JMS event gateway Leverage improved web service support in CFMX 7

  20. Internal Order Management Several internal applications also capture manual orders Already written in ColdFusion Generated orders as CSV files Rewrote file generation custom tag to produce XML Could easily change to use JMS now!

  21. Online Store Architecture II Replace Perl back end Use same engine as Breeze Live Online Sales Send all orders as XML over JMS ERP ColdFusion application does not change!

  22. OLS Architecture II – Web Side

  23. OLS Architecture II – ERP Side

  24. New Order Management Real time communication between OLS and ERP Sales orders Order status Ship confirmation Inside Oracle we publish data in real time On triggers / workflow events, we publish recordsets as XML to Oracle AQ queues Oracle AQ event gateway (Java) consumes and republishes to JMS using JMS event gateway

  25. New Order Management (cont) Large attachments processed in the background Sends URL to async CFML gateway Async task fetches document and stores in Oracle Real time communication between ERP & CRM Customer details & entitlements published to a single Oracle queue as XML rowsets Oracle AQ event gateway consumes, reformats and publishes to two separate JMS topics JMS event gateway consumes , parses and stores customer details & entitlements in CRM

  26. The Big Picture

  27. Future Plans Over time, replace complex custom Java adapters with CFMX 7 JMS event gateways Consider replacing scheduled tasks that scan directories for files with the built-in CFMX 7 DirectoryWatcher Enhanced JMS event gateway – supports authentication, per-topic cached publishers, additional “initial context properties”

  28. Conclusion XML provides a human-readable, self-validating, structured format for complex data – and it's easy to process in CF! XML beats CSV hands down (duh!) JMS has reduced latency in data processing and improved the reliability of data transfers within the enterprise A hub'n'spoke architecture makes it easier to add and replace systems without re-engineering everything else

  29. Conclusion (continued) Building JMS-based applications can be a complex, time-consuming process (and unreliable on .NET!) ColdFusion MX 7's event gateways make it easy to build maintainable, robust asynchronous applications JMS publish & subscribe Oracle AQ receive DirectoryWatcher Asynchronous CFML

  30. Sean A Corfield Director of Architecture Macromedia, Inc. scorfield@macromedia.com sean@corfield.org Questions & Answers?

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