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Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administrator's Guide

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Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administrator's Guide

Overview of this book

Oracle SOA Suite 12 c is the most comprehensive and integrated infrastructure on the market today that is used for building applications based on service-oriented architecture. With the vast number of features and capabilities that Oracle SOA Suite 12c has to offer comes numerous complexities and challenges for administration. Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administrator's Guide covers all the core areas of administration needed for you to effectively manage and monitor the Oracle SOA Suite environment and its transactions, from deployments, to monitoring, to performance tuning, and much, much more. Manage, monitor, and troubleshoot SOA composites and OSB services from a single product set. Understand core administrative activities such as deployments, purging, startup and shutdown, configuration, backup, and recovery. Also learn about new features such as Oracle Enterprise Scheduler, lazy loading, work manager groups, high availability, and more.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle SOA Suite 12 Administrator's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding ESS terminology


Familiarizing yourself with the terminology of a relatively new technology component is not only necessary in order to understand the remaining sections of this chapter, but essential to fulfill your responsibilities as an administrator. Let's begin by understanding a simple component diagram, as shown in the following figure, followed by a brief description of each of the components.

Figure 11.3: The component diagram of Enterprise Scheduling Services

Job type

A job type is a basic predefined type that indicates what a job would comprise, such as Java or EJB code, PL/SQL, a command line, or web service.

Job definition

A job definition is the metadata associated with a job, such as parameter values specific to the request being executed.

Job

A job is essentially the smallest unit of work executed by the Scheduler Service engine; it is defined by the associated job type.

Job request

A job request is simply the execution of a job definition on a schedule. Every request...