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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By : Pete Wang
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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By: Pete Wang

Overview of this book

An integral component of Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) ultimately empowers business executives to react quickly to changing business situations. BAM enables business service and process monitoring through real-time data streaming and operational reports, and this book helps you to take advantage of this vital tool with best practice guidance for building a BAM project."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is an essential companion for advancing your BAM knowledge, with troubleshooting and performance tuning tips to guide you in building BAM applications. The book uses step-by-step instructions alongside a real world demo project to steer you through the pitfalls of report and application development. Packed with best practices, you'll learn about BAM migration, HA configuration and much more."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" comprises a myriad of best practices for building real-time operational dashboards, reports and alerts. The book dives straight into the architecture of Oracle BAM 11g, before moving swiftly onto concepts like managing BAM server securities, populating Data Objects and performing load testing. Later on you'll also learn about BAM migration and building an ADF-based report, plus much more that you won't want to miss. For focusing in on best practices for this integral tool within Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, "Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is the perfect guide for the job.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Using the Oracle BAM Adapter


In this section, you will learn how to use the Oracle BAM Adapter to populate BAM Data Objects.

The Oracle BAM Adapter is a Java Connector Architecture (JCA) -based adapter, which exposes BAM Data Object operations as web services interfaces, by implementing JCA contracts (lifecycle management, security, transactions, and so on). The following is the high level architecture of the BAM Adapter:

By default, the Oracle BAM Adapter is running on the Application Server that hosts the SOA Infrastructure (the SOA server), not on the Application Server that hosts BAM components. The BAM Adapter is primarily referenced in SOA composites as an external service, and its clients can be BPEL processes, Mediator, or OSB components.

The following depicts the typical message flow when performing an operation (Insert, Update, Upsert, or Delete) on BAM Active Data Cache through the BAM Adapter:

  1. 1. An SOA composite sends an XML payload to the Oracle BAM Adapter over the RMI protocol...