The Oracle SOA Suite provides you with an SOA platform for the complete management of composite applications. Besides providing out of the box functionality, Oracle SOA Suite also provides abilities to extend its functionality. Since it is based on Java technology, the extensions usually involve Java class files, Java Archives, or both. Along with the configuration, usually in the XML format or properties file, this provides you with extensions of the Oracle SOA Suite suitable for utilization by different clients. Furthermore, the extensions are also exposable to the external environment via web services or by BPEL processes. We can expose various functionalities through extensions, for example, parts of business processes, integrations with payment gateways, logging facilities, support of digital signatures and encryptions, authentication mechanisms, and so on.
Fundamentally, the third-party libraries act in two ways during the development process. When using JDeveloper as the...