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Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook

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Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

Oracle Service Bus 11g is a scalable SOA integration platform that delivers an efficient, standards-based infrastructure for high-volume, mission critical SOA environments. It is designed to connect, mediate, and manage interactions between heterogeneous services, legacy applications, packaged solutions and multiple Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) instances across an enterprise-wide service network. Oracle Service Bus is a core component in the Oracle SOA Suite as a backbone for SOA messaging. This practical cookbook shows you how to develop service and message-oriented (integration) solutions on the Oracle Service Bus 11g. Packed with over 80 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, this book starts by showing you how to create a basic OSB service and work efficiently and effectively with OSB. The book then dives into topics such as messaging with JMS transport, using EJB and JEJB transport, HTTP transport and Poller transports, communicating with the database, communicating with SOA Suite and Reliable Message Processing amongst others. The last two chapters discuss how to achieve message and transport-level security on the OSB.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Security has always played and still plays an important role in today's information-driven business processes. Consumers of information must know who sent the information and whether it has not been changed or read by others. Only then can they trust the message and do the transaction.

When thinking about security it's important to distinguish between Transport and Message-level security.

Transport-level security represents a technique where the underlying operating system or application servers are handling security features. Recipes for transport-level security are covered in the next chapter

Message-level security represents a technique where all information related to security is encapsulated in the message. This is what WS-Security specifies for web services. Securing messages using message-level security instead of using transport-level security has several advantages that includ:

  • Flexibility – parts of the message can be signed or encrypted. This means that intermediary...