Intel® SOA Expressway has two parts: a single runtime designed for common operating systems and Intel® Multi-Core servers, and an Eclipse-based design-time environment called Intel® Services Designer.
SOA Expressway supports a simple model called d3R: “Design, Develop, Deploy and Run”. SOA Expressway does not require additional application servers, databases, repositories, appliances or other pieces of software to function. It is a self-contained, packaged software appliance for SOA enablement. It runs on standard OEM Intel® Multi-Core servers and does not require any special hardware. Intel® SOA Expressway is typically used to create a high-speed overlay network of services utilizing standards such as SOAP, WSDL, XML and XSD. Intel® SOA Expressway provides unique local services for wire-speed XML processing hidden beneath a standards based model.
The center of the SOA Expressway processing model is the high performance service mediation engine which processes inbound messages through the invocation of any number of
local or
remote services. Intel® SOA Expressway has a flexible deployment model and can be used in
proxy mode for service virtualization or as an entry-point to a composite service for business workflow mediation. It can also be used in
co-processor mode for service delivery such as XML acceleration or security offload. Moreover, SOA Expressway provides out-of-the box optimizations for Intel® Multi-Core processors, which means business workflows built with SOA Expressway are pre-optimized for the latest Intel processor technology.
