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Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide

By : Antony Reynolds, Matt Wright
Book Image

Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide

By: Antony Reynolds, Matt Wright

Overview of this book

<p>We are moving towards a standards-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), where IT infrastructure is continuously adapted to keep up with the pace of business change. Oracle is at the forefront of this vision, with the Oracle SOA Suite providing the most comprehensive, proven, and integrated tool kit for building SOA based applications.<br /><br />Developers and Architects using the Oracle SOA Suite, whether working on integration projects, building composite applications, or specializing in implementations of Oracle Applications, need a hands-on guide on how best to harness and apply this technology. <br /><br />This book will guide you on using and applying the Oracle SOA Suite to solve real-world problems, enabling you to quickly learn and master the technology and its applications.<br /><br />The initial section of the book is aimed at providing you with a detailed hands-on tutorial to each of the core components that make up the Oracle SOA Suite; namely the Oracle Service Bus, BPEL Process Manager, Human Workflow, Business Rules, and Business Activity Monitoring. Once you are familiar with the various pieces of the SOA Suite and what they do, the next question will typically be: "What is the best way to combine / use all of these different components to implement a real-world SOA solution?"<br /><br />Answering this question is the goal of the next section. Using a working example of an online auction site (oBay), it leads you through key SOA design considerations in implementing a robust solution that is designed for change. Though the examples in the book are based on Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.4 the book will still be extremely useful for anyone using 11g.<br /><br />The final section addresses non-functional considerations and covers the packaging, deployment, and testing of SOA applications; it then details how to use Web Service Manager to secure and administer SOA applications.</p>
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the authors
About the reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


Bindings allow us to control the way in which SOA Suite components interact with services. Different bindings provide different benefits, such as transactionality or better performance.

Generally when considering bindings, we do not have to worry too much about the low level details. The key questions we need to ask are:

  • Does this service already exist? In this case, we use the existing service without concerning ourselves about the bindings it uses.

  • Can this service be created by use of an adapter wizard? In this case, we use the appropriate adapter wizard to generate the required service without concerning ourselves about the bindings other than to make a note to create the appropriate JCA resource at the correct JNDI location.

  • Does this service require very high throughput? In this case, we may want to consider using an adapter or Java binding to improve performance, even if a SOAP binding already exists.

  • Does this service require true transactionality? In this case, we want to use...