ACORD Web Services
- 1. BUILDING ACORD WEB SERVICE AWARE APPLICATIONS ACORD Software Factory
- 2. Protective SOA Goals Drive • Orchestrate service portfolio to rapidly create new, straight- thru business processes. Competitive • Enable marketing and product groups greater flexibility to Advantage tailor processes to a customer or product. • Expose existing internal system value to ourselves, our Solution customers, and our partners through interoperability offered by Provider open standards. • Enable "hook" strategies through our customers' systems. • Development efficiency and deployment speed. Excellent • Reuse entire systems to reduce development times and costs. Execution • Encapsulate existing systems easing retirement of redundant legacy systems and the acquisition of new legacy systems.
- 3. SOA Strategy Initial focus on System to System Projects Build consistent JBOWS Just a Bunch Of Web-Services Systems talk common language TXLife – lingua franca New services require only additional vocabulary, not a new language Long term focus composing and orchestrating the services ESB to be deployed this year
- 4. Current State Vendor Integration Exam One, Hooper Holmes, Skywire, AgencyWorks ECM Front Documentum with TXLife services Base64 encode docs with meta Ticket Biz 1035 Exchange Next Looks Buy TXLife Services – PlanetSoft (“new” New Biz) Agent Management Annuities
- 6. What is ASF .NET / ACORD Accelerator for ACORD/LOMA XSD schemas (for both P&C and Life) 3 general uses Wrap existing business logic with ACORD callable web services -- quickly Call existing ACORD web services quickly Or just work with ACORD standard XML quickly Open source community project available on codeplex http://www.codeplex.com/IVC
- 7. ASF Contains Comprehensive set of WCF data contract definitions based on ACORD P&C v1.16.0 and L&A v2.20.01 Complete service taxonomy with 42 services, 62 interface definitions and over 475 operations Includes SDK-like class library reference documentation Samples and White Papers Plug-n-play enabled via automated functional test harness suite with over 475 test harnesses
- 8. ASF Value Eases Learning Many teams unfamiliar with TXLife Use previous projects as reference Avoid consultant spend Reuse Shared development and reuse across projects TXLife dialect consistency
- 9. Open Source Strategy Two-level Strategy Internal Open, shared project Reuse Implement branching and build processes 3Q External Commodity versus Competitive Advantage Return commodity Considering third-level for partners
- 10. ASF Demo Demo
- 11. ASF Architecture Model ACORD .NET Service Proxies ACORD .NET Data Contracts ACORD WCF Client Claims Billing Aviation Personal Auto ••• Service Logging Service Service Service Insurance Services Caching ACORD Schema Security Integration Accelerator Lookup Codes (pluggable providers) Exception Mgmt Legacy Schema Architecture Services (Enterprise Library) Backend Applications
- 12. Data Contracts and Service Proxies ACORD based WCF data contracts ACORD .NET Service Proxies ACORD .NET Data Contracts and service proxies ACORD WCF Client SOAP Web Services Claims Billing Service Aviation Personal Auto ••• Service Service Service Logging Insurance Services Caching ACORD Schema Security Integration Accelerator (pluggable Lookup Codes providers) Exception Mgmt Backend-Specific Schema Architecture Services (Enterprise Library) Backend Applications
- 13. WS-I Web Services Interface ACORD .NET Service Proxies Provide true SOA ACORD .NET Data Contracts web-services out ACORD WCF Client of ACORD schema SOAP Web Services Claims Billing Service Aviation Personal Auto ••• Service Service Service Logging Insurance Services Caching ACORD Schema Security Integration Accelerator (pluggable Lookup Codes providers) Exception Mgmt Backend-Specific Schema Architecture Services (Enterprise Library) Backend Applications
- 14. Enterprise Library for Shared Services Uses Microsoft ACORD .NET Service Proxies ACORD .NET Data Contracts Enterprise Library ACORD WCF Client SOAP Web Services Claims Billing Service Aviation Personal Auto ••• Service Service Service Logging Insurance Services Caching ACORD Schema Security Integration Accelerator (pluggable Lookup Codes providers) Exception Mgmt Backend-Specific Schema Architecture Services (Enterprise Library) Backend Applications
- 15. Pluggable Service Implementation Provider You plug in your ACORD .NET Service Proxies ACORD .NET Data Contracts business logic here. We help with ACORD WCF Client optional BizTalk samples. SOAP Web Services Claims Billing Service Aviation Personal Auto ••• Service Service Service Logging Insurance Services Caching ACORD Schema Security Integration Accelerator (pluggable Lookup Codes providers) Exception Mgmt Backend-Specific Schema Architecture Services (Enterprise Library) Backend Applications
- 16. Code Generator Creates the XSD to .NET mapping Optimizes various TXLife scenarios Choice statements Union statements OLI_LU types Allow for manual codes
- 17. Choice <xsd:complexType name="CriteriaExpression_Type"> <xsd:choice> <xsd:element ref="Criteria" /> <xsd:sequence> <xsd:element ref="CriteriaOperator" /> <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xsd:element ref="Criteria" /> <xsd:element ref="CriteriaExpression" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" /> </xsd:choice> <xsd:element ref="ObjectTypeConstraint" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" /> <xsd:element ref="OLifEExtension" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" /> </xsd:sequence> </xsd:choice> </xsd:complexType>
- 18. Union <xsd:simpleType name="BENEFIT_INQUIRY_TC"> <xsd:union> <xsd:simpleType> <xsd:restriction base="ACORD_TYPE_CODE"> <xsd:enumeration value="0" /> <xsd:enumeration value="1" /> <xsd:enumeration value="2" /> <xsd:enumeration value="3" /> <xsd:enumeration value="2147483647" /> </xsd:restriction> </xsd:simpleType> <xsd:simpleType> <xsd:restriction base="ACORD_PRIVATE_CODE" /> </xsd:simpleType> </xsd:union> </xsd:simpleType>
- 19. OLI_LU types <xsd:complexType name="OLI_LU_PARTY"> <xsd:simpleContent> <xsd:extension base="xsd:string"> <xsd:attribute name="tc" use="required" type="OLI_LU_PARTY_TC" /> </xsd:extension> </xsd:simpleContent> </xsd:complexType> <xsd:simpleType name="OLI_LU_PARTY_TC"> <xsd:union> <xsd:simpleType> <xsd:restriction base="ACORD_TYPE_CODE"> <xsd:enumeration value="1" /> <xsd:enumeration value="2" /> </xsd:restriction> </xsd:simpleType> </xsd:union> </xsd:simpleType>
- 20. Next Steps Protective Common insurance objects and processes Beneficiary, Insureds Parties and relationships Example – AddInsured() Community ASF Working Group?