Book Image

Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook

Book Image

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

Using the Java Callout action with XMLBeans


In this recipe, we will show how to use a Java Callout action to invoke a Java method, which will return XML messages. We have already seen that a Java method can return Java primitives or String values in the Using the Java Callout action to invoke Java code recipe. But the Java Callout action can also work with Apache XMLBeans, which allows us to directly pass XML message from a Java method to an OSB proxy service and vice versa, without having them serialized from String to XML. The Oracle Service Bus natively works with these XMLBean objects.

We will implement a proxy service which invokes a Java class inside a JAR using the Java Callout action, as shown in the following screenshot:

The Java class will format an XML message using Apache XMLBeans and return it to the proxy service. The message is then returned to the caller of the proxy service.

Getting ready

You can import the OSB project containing the base setup for this recipe into Eclipse OEPE...