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Applied SOA Patterns on the Oracle Platform

By : Sergey Popov
Book Image

Applied SOA Patterns on the Oracle Platform

By: Sergey Popov

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Applied SOA Patterns on the Oracle Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
An Introduction to Oracle Fusion – a Solid Foundation for Service Inventory
7
Gotcha! Implementing Security Layers
Index

Chapter 8. Taking Care – Error Handling

While discussing security patterns, we described handling (or, in fact, mishandling) faults as one of the major contributors to the vulnerabilities of SOA, and the inadequately designed Fault/Errors Handling (EH) framework is apparently the main provider of all information to the error/event logs and the "grateful" attacker. We mentioned some simple rules for exception handling inside a single service (Entity or Utility service models) as the sole building block of the entire SOA infrastructure. Implementation of this rule would be enough for an infrastructure that contains only these models of SOAP services or simple REST services without compositions of any complexity. When we have something more complex (such as Task Orchestrated service models) or in fact any external exposure along with associated security risks or (usually) both, something that is a lot more substantial is required. This something in addition to a proper EH's service design will...