CN101808051B - Application integration gateway and control method thereof - Google Patents
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The invention relates to an application integration gateway and a control method thereof. The integration gateway device comprises a client network interface and a server-side network interface, wherein a service agent engine is connected between the client network interface and the server-side network interface and is respectively connected with a business process engine and a script engine, and the business process engine is connected with the script engine; and the script engine is connected with a script library. The control method is as follows: when the requests of a client are intercepted between the client and a server, the requests of the client are processed according to the pre-defined application integration process so as to realize the enterprise application integration business process. The invention is connected in the existing enterprise application system in a gateway way, solves the problem of very high coordination cost and development cost brought by the application integration scheme of traditional enterprises, and simultaneously has the characteristics of simple deployment structure, wide range of application, strong expansibility and the like.
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Technical field
The invention belongs to areas of information technology, especially a kind of application integration gateway and control method thereof.
Background technology
Along with increasing sharply of the various computer applications of business and government department, especially be accompanied by the rise of the Internet and XML technology, increasing business and government department is the traffic diversion internet electronic business of oneself, comprehensive information service trans-departmental, cross-system can't be effectively provided but isolated information system also occurred, real-time Information Access can't be realized and to the integration of operation flow.the operation flow of enterprise information system can relate to a plurality of application systems usually simultaneously, interface due to a plurality of application systems, the framework disunity makes these should be closely integrated application systems become one by one " information island ", therefore, enterprise's application integration (Enterprise Application Integration, EAI) technology is arisen at the historic moment, it can connect the relevant heterogeneous system of miscellaneous service inside and outside enterprise as bus by middleware, use and data source, thereby each existing isolation application is accessed this bus as the various parts of PC, consist of the enterprise operation system of an integration.But, it is exactly that implementation cost is high that there is a huge bottleneck in existing EAI solution, reason is that existing EAI solution can not initiatively adapt to existing the application, but existing application system is carried out software modification in requirement and reconstruct could be implemented, the Cost for Coordination that this work brings and development cost are very high, have had a strong impact on applying of EAI solution.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to overcome the deficiencies in the prior art, provide a kind of reasonable in design and can reduce application integration gateway and the control method thereof of Cost for Coordination and development cost.
The present invention solves its technical problem and takes following technical scheme to realize:
a kind of application integration gateway, comprise the client network interface that is connected with client network and the server end network interface that is connected with a plurality of application servers, connect service broker's engine between client network interface and server end network interface, this service broker's engine is connected with script engine with business process engine respectively, this business process engine is connected with script engine, and this script engine is connected with the script storehouse, described service broker's engine receives the request of client from the client network interface, request is judged, the request that does not relate to operation flow is directly issued corresponding application server by the server end network interface, sends response results back to client by the client network interface after fetching response, the business process engine processing is transferred in the request that relates to operation flow, business process engine circulates according to the predefine flow process, when carrying out single link, business process engine and script engine are mutual, revise request content according to interaction results, by service broker's engine, request content is sent to corresponding application server afterwards, service broker's engine is fetched loopback traffic flow engine after the response contents of application server, business process engine and script engine are mutual, revise response contents according to interaction results, single link is finished, business process engine is after overall flow is finished, via the client network interface, response contents is sent to client by service broker's engine.
And, described script engine also connects a database access interface, one output of this database access interface is connected with internal database, and another output of this database access interface is connected with the server end network interface, and this server end network interface is connected with external data base.
And described script engine also connects a single-sign-on and user account mapping engine.
And, also be connected an alert engine between described business process engine and service broker's engine.
And described service broker's engine is built-in with the insert receptacle of holding various services and protocol processes plug-in unit.
And described client network interface and server network interface consist of by network interface card, driver and corresponding Service Processing Module thereof.
And described business process engine also connects one and integrates gateway intercommunication network interface, and this integration gateway intercommunication network interface is made of network interface card, driver and Service Processing Module thereof.
A kind of control method of application integration gateway comprises the steps:
(1) the client network interface receives client-requested and is sent to service broker's engine;
Does (2) service broker's engine judge that this request relates to operation flow? it is execution in step (3), otherwise service broker's engine is sent to corresponding application server by the server end network interface with request content, and obtain the response contents of corresponding application server, execution in step (6);
(3) service broker's engine sends to business process engine with request content, business process engine is carried out predefined integration flow process, execution in step (4)-(5) in single link on stream, until overall flow is finished, execution in step (6);
(4) business process engine and script engine are mutual, revise request content and beam back service broker's engine according to interaction results, service broker's engine sends to corresponding application server with request content, and fetches the response contents of application server and send to business process engine;
(5) business process engine and script engine are mutual, revise response contents and beam back service broker's engine according to interaction results;
(6) service broker's engine sends to client by the client network interface with response contents.
And business process engine and script engine in described step (4) are mutual, revise request content and beam back service broker's engine according to interaction results to comprise following treatment step:
(1) definition sends instruction to script engine according to operation flow;
(2) script engine takes out predefined script and explains and carry out from the script storehouse according to instruction, sends to the application server of correspondence via service broker's engine in process and asks and fetch response contents;
(3) script engine feeds back to business process engine with response contents;
(4) business process engine is carried out set action according to the situation of response contents coupling predefine condition.
And the executable action of described step (4) comprises following one or more:
(1) send information for certain user to alert engine, service broker's engine takes out prompting message from alert engine and feeds back to client when the respective user access system;
(2) send instruction to database access interface and carry out the perdurable data access, database access interface carries out alternately according to configuring condition and internal database or external data base;
(3) send instruction to single-sign-on and user account number mapping engine, access request is carried out authentication, obtain log-on message and account number map information;
(4) by integrating gateway intercommunication network interface and other application integration gateway move instruction and data.
Advantage of the present invention and good effect are:
1, this application is integrated gateway and is connected between client network and a plurality of application server, can initiatively adapt to existing enterprise's application system, and the function of taking over existing application server, when the request of receiving client, integrate flow process according to predefined application, request to client is processed, send to corresponding application server except former state or after revising, also can trigger new action to relevant application system according to flow process, business interlock result can be after relative clients enters system the very first time tip out, thereby complete integration of business processes and enterprise's application integration.This application is integrated gateway and directly is linked in existing enterprise network, need not do any change to existing application system, compares existing EAI product and has reduced Cost for Coordination and development cost, and be convenient to safeguard and implement.
2, this application integration gateway is the gateway device that is connected between client network and application server, carries out having the simple characteristics of deployment architecture alternately with client and server respectively by client network interface and server end network interface.
3, this application integrate gateway both can single device work, also can carry out the collaborative work of many device clusters by integrating gateway intercommunication network interface, can adapt to complicated network environment and complicated applications environment, as multisegment, multi-functional-area, multiple systems framework etc., have adaptable characteristics.
4, the service agent engine of this application integration gateway is built-in with the insert receptacle of holding various services and protocol processes plug-in unit, many services can be installed process plug-in unit, expand more multiple access and protocol processes function, as processing the agreements such as HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, expansion plugin can be processed more multi-protocols, can support the mode such as JDBC, JMS, WebService and other application system to carry out the invocation of procedure and information exchange, therefore have the strong characteristics of autgmentability.
5, the present invention is linked in existing enterprise's application system with gateway forms, has solved Cost for Coordination and the very large problem of development cost that traditional forms of enterprises's application integration scheme is brought, has simultaneously the characteristics such as deployment architecture is simple, accommodation is extensive, autgmentability is strong.
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Fig. 1 is the logic diagram that application integration gateway consists of;
Fig. 2 is the flow chart of application integration gateway control method;
Fig. 3 is the flow chart of business process engine and script engine interaction process process;
Fig. 4 is the processing procedure schematic diagram of realize to use integrating in based on the service environment of browser at.
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Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, the embodiment of the present invention is further described.
a kind of application integration gateway, as shown in Figure 1, by the client network interface, the server end network interface, integrate gateway intercommunication network interface, service broker's engine, business process engine, script engine, the script storehouse, alert engine, single-sign-on and user account mapping engine, database access interface, internal database and external data base connect and compose, client network interface wherein, the server end network interface, integrate gateway intercommunication network interface by physical network card, driver and corresponding Service Processing Module thereof consist of, above-mentioned Service Processing Module and service broker's engine, business process engine, script engine, the script storehouse, alert engine, single-sign-on and user account mapping engine, database access interface, internal database, the Logical processing units such as external data base run in gateway host as process.the concrete annexation of application integration gateway is: the client network interface is connected with client network, and the server end network interface is connected with a plurality of application servers and external data base, connect service broker's engine between client network interface and server end network interface, be built-in with the insert receptacle of holding various services and protocol processes plug-in unit at this service broker's engine, this service broker's engine also respectively with business process engine, script engine, alert engine is connected, this business process engine also respectively with alert engine, script engine and integration gateway intercommunication network interface are connected, this script engine respectively with the script storehouse, single-sign-on is connected with user account mapping engine and database access interface, one output of this database access interface is connected with internal database, another output of this database access interface is connected with the server end network interface.
The effect that this application is integrated each Logical processing unit of gateway is respectively: integrate a plurality of business integration flow processs of requirement definition for using, flow definition is stored in business process engine; For in flow process, each needs and have now the link definition interaction scripts of application system interaction, script is stored in the script storehouse, is called by script engine; For each application system that need integrate arranges service broker's engine, service broker's engine receives all client-requested by the client network interface, Forward-reques is to corresponding application server, the response results of server is sent back client, insert receptacle is set in it, can holds more services and protocol processes plug-in unit; Set up single-sign-on and the account number mapping engine is realized authorization access control, for the account number of all users in all application servers set up the account number mapping library, when the user logins each application system by the authentication of account number Mapping implementation; The building database access interface, access internal database or external data base; Set up alert engine, send prompting message when the operation flow interlock relates to certain user; Set up and integrate the gateway communication network interface, realize information communication and exchanges data between a plurality of integration gateways.
A kind of control method of application integration gateway as shown in Figure 2, comprises the steps:
(1) the client network interface receives client-requested and is sent to service broker's engine;
Does (2) service broker's engine judge that this request relates to operation flow? to enter next step, otherwise service broker's engine is sent to corresponding application server by the server end network interface with request content, and obtain the response contents of corresponding application server, execution in step (7);
(3) service broker's engine sends to business process engine with request content, and business process engine is carried out predefined integration flow process, execution in step (4) in single link on stream;
(4) business process engine and script engine are mutual, revise request content and beam back service broker's engine according to interaction results;
(5) service broker's engine sends to corresponding application server with request content, and fetches the response contents of application server and send to business process engine;
(6) business process engine and script engine are mutual, revise response contents and beam back service broker's engine according to interaction results;
(7) service broker's engine sends to client by the client network interface with response contents.
Can realize enterprise's application integration and integration of business processes process by above-mentioned steps.
In above-mentioned processing procedure, step (4) and the described business process engine of step (6) and script engine are mutual, revise request content and beam back service broker's engine according to interaction results, revise response contents and beam back service broker's engine according to interaction results, as shown in Figure 3, comprise the following steps:
(1) definition sends instruction to script engine according to operation flow;
(2) script engine sends to service broker's engine from the predefined script of script storehouse taking-up successively according to instruction;
(3) service broker's engine is to the request of sending of the application server of correspondence and send response contents back to script engine;
(4) script engine feeds back to business process engine with response contents;
(5) business process engine is carried out predefined integration flow process, determines the action that will carry out in single link on stream.
The related action that will carry out comprises in above-mentioned steps (5):
(1) send information for certain user to alert engine, service broker's engine takes out information from alert engine and feeds back to client when the respective user access system;
(2) send instruction to script engine and carry out predefined interactive operation, script engine is pressed script logic and is carried out, and carry out alternately with service broker's engine from the corresponding script of script storehouse taking-up, and execution result returns to business process engine;
(3) send instruction to database access interface and carry out the perdurable data access, database access interface carries out alternately according to configuring condition and internal database or external data base;
(4) send instruction to single-sign-on and user account number mapping engine, access request is carried out authentication, obtain log-on message and account number map information;
(5) by integrating gateway intercommunication network interface and other application integration gateway move instruction and data.
Fig. 4 is for using this control method to realize using the processing procedure schematic diagram of integrating at one in based on the service environment of browser.In figure, application server A, B are separately installed with two of A, B based on Web browser model application system, the demand that the application that need to realize is integrated is: during user A submission form 1 in application system A, partial content in list 1 need to be submitted to application system B, be filled in list 2, and the user B in notice application system B carries out the related service processing.
at user A, user B and application server A, dispose this application between application server B and integrated gateway, user A has filled in list 1 and has been submitted to application server A, application integration gateway can be received this request content prior to application server A, the request content that the client network interface will receive user A sends to service broker's engine, service broker's engine judges URI and the HTTP stream content of this request, if meet predefine operation flow condition deliver business process engine, business process engine is according to the predefine flow process, send to script engine and need to carry out predefine script numbering and HTTP request complete content, script engine is from the corresponding script of script storehouse taking-up, begin to explain and carry out, can take out the partial content that to send to application server B in list from HTTP request stream in processing procedure, be combined into new table request corresponding to application server B, and take out and to carry out mutual encrypting user account with application server B to single-sign-on and user account number mapping engine, account and new table are committed to application server B by service broker's engine, simultaneously list 1 is submitted to application server A by service broker's engine, script engine is with application server A, the response loopback of application server B is to business process engine, by business process engine according to flow definition, the response of application server A is returned to user A by service broker's engine, prompting message and list 2 contents are issued alert engine, alert engine can be inserted the readjustment condition in service broker's engine, when user B login application server B, the interlock of user A list 1 is affected content be prompted to user B with the complete content of list 2, select voluntarily next step how to process by user B.
Embodiment of the present invention is illustrative; rather than determinate; therefore the present invention is not limited to the embodiment described in embodiment, and every other execution modes that drawn by those skilled in the art's technical scheme according to the present invention belong to the scope of protection of the invention equally.
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1. application integration gateway, it is characterized in that: comprise the client network interface that is connected with client network and the server end network interface that is connected with a plurality of application servers, connect service broker's engine between client network interface and server end network interface, this service broker's engine is connected with script engine with business process engine respectively, this business process engine is connected with script engine, and this script engine is connected with the script storehouse, described service broker's engine receives the request of client from the client network interface, request is judged, the request that does not relate to operation flow is directly issued corresponding application server by the server end network interface, sends response results back to client by the client network interface after fetching response, the business process engine processing is transferred in the request that relates to operation flow, business process engine circulates according to the predefine flow process, when carrying out single link, business process engine and script engine are mutual, revise request content according to interaction results, by service broker's engine, request content is sent to corresponding application server afterwards, service broker's engine is fetched loopback traffic flow engine after the response contents of application server, business process engine and script engine are mutual, revise response contents according to interaction results, single link is finished, business process engine is after overall flow is finished, via the client network interface, response contents is sent to client by service broker's engine.
2. application integration gateway according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described script engine also connects a database access interface, one output of this database access interface is connected with internal database, another output of this database access interface is connected with the server end network interface, and this server end network interface is connected with external data base.
3. application integration gateway according to claim 1 and 2, it is characterized in that: described script engine also connects a single-sign-on and user account mapping engine.
4. application integration gateway according to claim 1 is characterized in that: also be connected an alert engine between described business process engine and service broker's engine.
5. according to claim 1 or 4 described application integration gateways, it is characterized in that: described service broker's engine is built-in with the insert receptacle of holding various services and protocol processes plug-in unit.
6. application integration gateway according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described client network interface and server network interface consist of by network interface card, driver and corresponding Service Processing Module thereof.
7. according to claim 1 or 4 described application integration gateways is characterized in that: described business process engine also connects one and integrates gateway intercommunication network interface, and this integration gateway intercommunication network interface is made of network interface card, driver and Service Processing Module thereof.
8. the control method of an application integration gateway, is characterized in that: comprise the steps:
(1) the client network interface receives client-requested and is sent to service broker's engine;
Does (2) service broker's engine judge that this request relates to operation flow? it is execution in step (3), otherwise service broker's engine is sent to corresponding application server by the server end network interface with request content, and obtain the response contents of corresponding application server, execution in step (6);
(3) service broker's engine sends to business process engine with request content, business process engine is carried out predefined integration flow process, execution in step (4)-(5) in single link on stream, until overall flow is finished, execution in step (6);
(4) business process engine and script engine are mutual, revise request content and beam back service broker's engine according to interaction results, service broker's engine sends to corresponding application server with request content, and fetches the response contents of application server and send to business process engine;
(5) business process engine and script engine are mutual, revise response contents and beam back service broker's engine according to interaction results;
(6) service broker's engine sends to client by the client network interface with response contents.
9. the control method of application integration gateway according to claim 8, it is characterized in that: business process engine and script engine in described step (4) are mutual, revise request content and beam back service broker's engine according to interaction results to comprise following treatment step:
(1) definition sends instruction to script engine according to operation flow;
(2) script engine takes out predefined script and explains and carry out from the script storehouse according to instruction, sends to the application server of correspondence via service broker's engine in process and asks and fetch response contents;
(3) script engine feeds back to business process engine with response contents;
(4) business process engine is carried out set action according to the situation of response contents coupling predefine condition.
10. the control method of application integration gateway according to claim 9 is characterized in that: the executable action of described step (4) comprises following one or more:
(1) send information for certain user to alert engine, service broker's engine takes out prompting message from alert engine and feeds back to client when the respective user access system;
(2) send instruction to database access interface and carry out the perdurable data access, database access interface carries out alternately according to configuring condition and internal database or external data base;
(3) send instruction to single-sign-on and user account number mapping engine, access request is carried out authentication, obtain log-on message and account number map information;
(4) by integrating gateway intercommunication network interface and other application integration gateway move instruction and data.
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