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Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation

By : Luis Weir
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Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation

By: Luis Weir

Overview of this book

Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style created to address the challenges posed by today’s highly distributed, fast-paced computing. This goal is achieved by constructing business-focused software systems from loosely coupled, interoperable building blocks called Services. Organizations often fail to successfully implement SOA due to a lack of effective governance. Oracle SOA Governance is a comprehensive, service-orientated architecture governance solution that is designed to make the transition to SOA easier."Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation" illustrates how to successfully implement SOA governance in your organization. To achieve this, we describe how goals and objectives need to be clearly laid out and used to align governance processes with governance tools, governance tools with people, and people with the different roles and responsibilities that are required to implement effective governance."Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation" begins with a short but concise overview of SOA governance. We then go to explore real world examples, based on previous experiences and working solutions, in order to learn the concepts of Oracle SOA Governance Suite.We will also learn how to implement an OER-centric SDLC process to address your organizations design-time governance requirements. Next, we will explore OSR, and discover how to use it to expose service implementations to consumers based on UDDI concepts. We will explore the features available within Web Service Manager (WSM), Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), and Business Transaction Manager (BTM). Finally, we discover how OER can be extended to govern Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) implementations.Discover and learn how to use Oracle SOA Governance Suite to address your specific design-time and runtime governance challenges.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Use case


Just as with many other organizations, Weir & Bell Telecom used a wide variety of tools to monitor their technological landscape and provide support to their IT operations and ITIL processes. However, the fact that many different tools were being used presented its own challenges since it made business-as-usual tasks, such as fault detection, problem solving and root cause analysis, and creating a service ticket far more difficult than they should be.

Weir & Bell recognized that, by not having a unified and integrated set of tools to support their IT systems, they were failing to realize a huge opportunity to save costs. Some of the reasons why this was believed to be true included:

  • Each layer of the stack was monitored using its own specific tool. Therefore, support staff had to view several consoles in order to troubleshoot an issue.

  • Each environment (development, system test, user acceptance test, preproduction, production, DR, and others) had its own set of instances of...