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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

Creating a generic RESTful gateway on the OSB


In this recipe, we will show you how to implement a RESTful gateway on the OSB, which will accept RESTful requests and then routes these requests to the real implementation of the service that can also be a RESTful service. This adds an additional layer of processing logic, which can be used for things such as auditing, security, and SLA monitoring.

We will use an external public service called Brewery DB, which offers a RESTful API (http://www.brewerydb.com/api/documentation) to execute queries for breweries, beers, styles, and other information about beer.

The gateway we implement will be generic in such a way that it accepts all the different requests through one single proxy service and then routes the request directly to the business service, wrapping the external RESTful API of the Brewery DB service.

Getting ready

To use the Brewery DB service API, an API key is needed. Just register for such an API key here: http://www.brewerydb.com/api...