This article leverages discoveries from the 2+ year old article “Migrating Java CAPS 5/6 Assets to Oracle SOA Suite 11g – HL7 JCD to Spring Component Migration”, at http://blogs.czapski.id.au/2010/10/migrating-java-caps-56-assets-to-oracle-soa-suite-11g-hl7-jcd-to-spring-component-migration, and presents a different method of reusing “HL7 Transformer JCD” code in a SOA or OSB solution. This method uses SOA Suite for healthcare integration, slightly modified Java code for a “HL7 Transformer JCD” and WebLogic JMS. The Java CAPS part of the discussion is substantially the same, except the JCD code is wrapped in a SOA Suite for healthcare integration Callout, rather than being converted to a Spring Component embedded in a SOA Campsite. The “HL7 Adapter” part of the article is different in that SOA Suite for healthcare integration is used instead of the SOA Suite B2B HL7 functionality.
This article is of potential interest to these Sun/SeeBeyond customers who have an investment in moderate and large Java Collaboration Definition-based transformation and mapping rules, and who are looking for ways to reuse as much as possible of the Java code involved, when migrating to the Oracle SOA Suite or the Oracle Service Bus. The example developed in this article comes from the healthcare domain and uses the HL7 OTDs (Object Type Definitions). This is a deliberate choice because all but the most trivial HL7 transformations will involve hundreds of lines of Java code, therefore are a good candidates for migration. The adapter part of the HL7 solution is provided by the SOA Suite for healthcare integration. This makes the method domain-specific.
Discussion in this article addresses a subset of technologies available in the Java CAPS and in the SOA Suite for healthcare integration. Specifically, the Java Collaboration Definitions supported in Java CAPS 5.x and in Java CAPS 6/Repository, and the SOA Suite for healthcare integration (part of the SOA Suite 11g R1 PS5).
There is no discussion pertaining to JBI-based technologies or Java CAPS BPEL-based technologies. There is no discussion about other ways in which Java logic can be deployed as part of an Oracle SOA Suite solution.
The HL7 eWay and JCD based Java CAPS solution will be ported to the Oracle SOA Suite for healthcare integration and Java-based environment. HL7 Adapters will be replaced with the HL7 endpoints provided by the Oracle SOA Suite for healthcare integration infrastructure. What minimal routing is used will be provided by the Mediator component via JMS Queues. Transformation logic will be ported to the Java POJO (Plain Old Java Object) and will be embedded in the endpoint as a document callout.
This article walks through the process of “extracting” JCD source and related archives from Java CAPS, developing a stand-alone Java application which uses the JCD source, encapsulating JCD source in a SOA Suite for healthcare integration callout and finally reproducing Java CAPS HL7 solution functionality in an equivalent SOA Suite for healthcare integration solution.
The complete article is available at http://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/09_HL7JCD2DocumentCalloutMigration_v1.0.1.pdf.
Data files used in this article series are available at:
ADT_A01_output_1.hl7 – http://blogs.czapski.id.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ADT_A01_output_1.zip – this file contains a single ADT A01 transaction
