We put in place an Oracle Fusion Middleware platform based on the Oracle reference architecture, taking account of the organisational and technical constraints of the Canton of Geneva.
The first phase of the project began with workshops to introduce stakeholders to the best practices of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and formalised requirements in terms of security and integration with the Canton’s systems. This allowed us to define clearly an architecture for the solution which conformed to the client’s needs and which could evolve: a centralised federated bus. The central bused was charged with security validation and message routing while each business domain received its own dedicated bus. In this way we selected the technical architecture and completed the installation of the necessary platform components in the various environments.
The second phase of the project aimed at validating the solution’s capacity for integration in a real environment. We implemented a series of specific integration flows using the same technologies as our client: secure Web Services, secured JMS Queues, and validation of user permissions for a secured transaction. This phase was completed with targeted training on the bus technology for developers, administrators and architects.
The final phase of the project was given over to developing key “pilot” flows to be used directly in production. One part of this dealt with integrating the Canton’s other key applications: electronic publishing; document control; and Oracle e-Business Suite’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). We completed the project by putting in place generic bus level flows to validate the security model and call level authorisations of users across the various components of the Canton’s systems.