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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

The roles of OSR and OER


As discussed earlier in this book, OER is a fundamental component for effective design-time Governance (refer to Chapter 3, Introduction to Oracle Enterprise Repository). OER delivers critical information about current service capabilities to architects, SOA designers, and developers at design time, empowering them to make informed decisions for service re-use. All Design Time components and metadata are stored in OER.

OER provides a flexible meta-model for cataloging all assets within the SOA ecosystem and their dependencies and relationships to other artifacts. It is primarily used during the plan, design, and build phase of the lifecycle as a single source of truth for service and composite application development.

The OSR, on the other hand, acts as a reference point for services that have been deployed into the runtime environment. It is primarily used by components of the SOA infrastructure for programmatic, dynamic discovery and binding. OSR typically contains...