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Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Foundation Pack 11gR1: Essentials

By : Hariharan V Ganesarethinam
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Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Foundation Pack 11gR1: Essentials

By: Hariharan V Ganesarethinam

Overview of this book

<p>Every Enterprise should have a learning curve in building better integration solutions from inaccuracy. Since Integration becomes the backbone of every corporate IT system, it is important to build the integration solution based on industry proven best practices. Oracle being a leader in enterprise solutions brings industry best practices and open standards as Oracle AIA framework. Oracle AIA Foundation Packs provide an open standard data model, templates and methodologies to build integrations and processes for enterprise applications. This book will guide you through the Oracle AIA fundamentals and development practices.<br /><br />Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Foundation Pack 11gR1 focuses on the fundamentals of integration, the AIA approach to integration and various integration components in AIA. This book is developer- friendly as the structure of the book explains each component right from architecture to development. <br /><br />This book covers Oracle AIA and its approach for better collaboration with integration teams. It covers all the components of the Oracle AIA Foundation Pack.<br /><br />This book begins with AIA fundamentals, architecture, and components from Enterprise Business Objects (EBO), Enterprise Business Message (EBM), Enterprise Business Services (EBS), Application Business Connector Service (ABCS), and Enterprise Business Flow (EBF). However, this is not enough to build enterprise solution, so this book also covers AIA security, version management, design patterns, error handling, and centralized repository. In turn, this book doesn't leave out testing; it covers Composite Asset Validation System (CAVS). Finally, the last chapter ends with case studies that express real-time scenarios.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Foundation Pack 11R1: Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

About the Reviewers

Arun Ramesh started his IT career in 2005 and has since worked on challenging integration assignments. He has been a part of some major IT consulting giants, globally. He has a niche portfolio of skills in integration-related technologies from multiple vendors. He is currently, a Senior Technical Consultant specializing in integrations on Oracle Fusion Middleware based on Service Oriented Architecture. He has been a part of major pioneering implementation milestones using Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle AIA. He has also been instrumental in implementations using Oracle stack with the integration layer being Oracle AIA. He is an expert in complex and very large customizations in AIA PIPs and has been a front runner for one such challenging engagement for a telecom major in Europe.

He has been a reviewer for various books on Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle BPM. He is distinguishably known in the public domain for his technology blog on Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle AIA, which provides numerous technical tips, product reviews, code snippets, and solutions to other blogger queries.

Sandeep Phukan has more than eight years of experience in integration technologies and Java. He currently works as an Architect in Anatas Consulting, Sydney, a leader in Cloud Computing and next generation Enterprise Architecture Solutions for Asia Pacific region. Earlier, he worked as a Technical Lead for Nokia Siemens Network R&D, Bangalore, assisting on the integration of Next Generation Unified Convergent Billing Systems based on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

Prior to this, Sandeep worked with Oracle SSI, Bangalore as a Senior Consultant, where his key involvement was Oracle AIA for Communications (Telco PIP). During this period he travelled to several countries around the world, aiding customers in developing customizations for Oracle AIA artifacts.

Sandeep is a certified Java Developer and has a keen interest in Low Bandwidth Transports and Distributed Algorithms. During his time at Oracle SSI, he was actively involved with the SSI Innovation Centre, where he created a number of utility extensions to the Oracle SOA Suite. He also maintains an open source repository of several SOA utilities in the Google code repository, http://code.google.com/p/soalabs/.

Sandeep is also an avid researcher in the area of SOA Governance. He has published a number of papers in the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) on technology neutral Designtime Dependency analysis of SOA Artifacts. Reference One of his inventions on this subject (Graph Based Designtime Dependency Analysis) has recently been accepted for a Patent in the US Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO).

Senthil Raja is a consultant with Cognizant focusing on SOA technologies with three years of overall experience. He has been involved in development of SOA-based projects throughout his career. Senthil has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communications engineering from the Anna University.