Background

WBPM is an IBM family of products for modeling, assembling, deploying, and managing applications that embody a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and are integrated using an enterprise service bus (ESB). The core set of products in the solution are:

• WebSphere Process Server (WPS) deploys and executes processes that orchestrate services (people, information, systems, and trading partners) within your service-oriented architecture (SOA) or non-SOA infrastructure.
• WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WSESB) provides Web services connectivity and JMS messaging.
• WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) is an Eclipse-based tool for building SOA-based BPM and integration solutions across WPS, WESB, and WebSphere Adapters.

Cúram currently offers a set of web services called "Incremental Modernization and Transformation" (IMT) Services to weave together Cúram's SEM (Social Enterprise Management) services which are embedded in Cúram's various business modules (such as Case management, Eligibility and Entitlement Management, etc.)

Cúram have successfully verified that WBPM (WID versions 6.1.2.002 and 6.2) can be used to connect applications together using IMT Services. This involved the following steps:

• Setup of WID and WPS alongside a Cúram installation.
• Import Cúram IMT Services into WID and WPS.
• Connect Cúram IMT Services to other services in WPS.
• Test the import and the connection. Analyse and validate the messages being sent between the various components.

This demonstrates that Cúram supports SOA and is ready for integration with external systems using WebSphere BPM stack. This document outlines the steps taken to verify this proof of concept.