This IBM Redbooks publication explains the concepts and practice of developing service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based solutions using the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform (SDP). It uses the latest version of IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) that includes service-oriented modeling and architecture (SOMA) content from IBM Global Business Services. This book aims to help practitioners that are working on SOA-based projects. Practitioners can learn the core concepts behind SOA as well as how to use the tooling to automate the tasks involved in developing SOA-based solutions. The main thread of this book takes business requirements, business architecture, and existing assets as input, and derives the elements of a service-oriented architecture that are needed to realize the business requirements. The book covers architecture in detail, and shows how the architecture is realized through service identification, specification, realization, implementation, and testing. The book is organized around a practical example case study and provides tool and process guidance as well as additional references around key topics.

This IBM® Redbooks publication describes the new Rational® Unified Process® (RUP®) for System z™ method, which has been especially created for use by organizations that are involved in developing applications software in the System z environment. Developing applications software in the System z environment has been going on for many decades and generally during this time, traditional development life cycle methodologies have been applied to the development process. With the current environment of businesses needing to be more agile, on demand, and flexible to user needs, pressure is on IT organizations to respond in as agile and flexible a manner as possible in order to satisfy user needs with precision and quality. RUP is based on proven development principles and contains best practices for developing software. This specific adaptation of a modern best-of-breed methodology, RUP for System z, will provide you with a development process that has already yielded much valued benefits to software development practitioners in other platform environments. This IBM Redbooks publication demonstrates the use of the RUP for System z method by using as a case study an application development example. It provides you with actual example work products produced during the various lifecycle iterations and phases, so that you are able to more easily understand the iterative and incremental nature of application development and its associated benefits. The new RUP for System z is also available as a Web site for easy re

This IBM Redbook is intended to help you design your processes and solutions using Rational products to manage compliance. It shows how Rational solutions can be applied by an organization to realize a controlled, auditable software development environment to help alleviate specific challenges imposed by standards, policies, and regulations. This book provides a usage model and product configuration guidance to help a tools administrator implement and configure some or all of the Rational tools to address compliance challenges. This book is intended help you and your partners understand the design and deployment of IBM Rational's Business Driven Development for Compliance solution. This book focuses on problems addresses by Rational products. The emphasis is on auditable change processes, in particular using ClearQuest and ClearCase. We provide additional coverage of requirements for compliance using RequisitePro, and compliance attestation using ClearQuest Test Manager, IT governance using Rational Portfolio Manager, Rational Method Composer, and the Rational Unified Process (RUP). This book presents a solution for compliance management that demonstrates support of all three dimensions of business driven development of software for compliance, say what you do, do what you say, and be able to prove it.