In the context of Enterprise Architecture, the choice of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has emerged over the past few years as a flexible solution to align business needs with IT decisions. At the core of SOA, the IT infrastructure is presented through a set of services that are often composed to fulfill business processes. Each of these services are specified through Service Contracts that capture the capabilities offered by these services from a business perspective.
One of the challenges of deploying a successful Enterprise Architecture, is to properly identify and design the services that will be deployed on top of IT applications and systems. The telecommunication industry has developed a set of standards through bodies such as the TeleManagement Forum or the OSS through Java™ initiative that provides design guidelines, best practices, and patterns to ensure that the final solution is successful.
Tigerstripe Workbench encapsulates these design guidelines and best practices in a Workbench integrated with Eclipse, where an OSS/BSS Architect can model, design, and release standard compliant Service Contracts.
This first section is intended to guide you through your first Tigerstripe project, where you will design a simple Service Contract. The basic concepts behind Tigerstripe Workbench are introduced so you can easily navigate the Workbench Perspective.
The following concepts will be covered:
- The Tigerstripe Perspective is introduced to present the workbench used to perform all Tigerstripe related tasks.
- The "Basic Tutorial" is a tutorial that will guide you through your first Tigerstripe Project.
Tigerstripe Workbench is composed of three major components:
- The Core Engine which transforms the model of a Service Contract into an internal representation that can be used to generate such information as Service Contract specifications, documentation, and implementation.
- The Eclipse Plug-in, which provides a graphical user interface to design, test and release Service Contracts.
- A set of Tigerstripe Generators that capture the specifics of each standard and produces the corresponding development code (i.e. XML Integration Profile for OSS/J).
© copyright 2005, 2006, 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. - All rights reservedTigerstripe Workbench is fully integrated with Eclipse and adheres to the Eclipse guidelines. As a result, an Eclipse user will quickly become acquainted with Tigerstripe.