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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator's Handbook

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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator's Handbook

Overview of this book

Oracle SOA Suite 11g is the backbone of messaging and application integration in a service-oriented architecture. An application administrator is responsible for an end-to-end administration and management of the infrastructure. Understanding the underlying components, services, and configuration and their relations to each other is necessary to effectively administer the Oracle SOA Suite 11g environment. Due to its sheer size, administering Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a daunting task.This book provides detailed explanations of all the core administrative and management activities around Oracle SOA Suite. It includes compact information for end-to-end administration of Oracle SOA Suite 11g. It delves into advanced topics such as silent installs, cloning, backup and recovery and high availability installations.Using this book, you will be able to administer and secure your Oracle SOA Suite services and applications. You will follow examples that you can use in your everyday life as a SOA Suite administrator. The book begins with managing composite applications, their deployments and lifecycles and then moves on to monitoring instances, service engines, Weblogic Server and composite applications. With a detailed coverage of topics like the administration of individual service components as well as configuring MBeans using both Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control and WLST-based scripts, you will be equipped to work with any services and applications.Towards the end, you will be taken through identifying faults & exceptions, troubleshooting approaches, and securing various components.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator's Handbook
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Administering and configuring Oracle Business Activity Monitoring


Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provides the tools for monitoring key business and performance indicators for business services in an enterprise. It allows correlating market indicators to actual business processes allowing business processes to change quickly or take corrective actions in the ever changing and dynamic business environment. Oracle BAM provides the necessary tools and runtime services to create enterprise dashboards that display real-time data inflow and metrics, and defines rules to send alerts under specified conditions.

Oracle BAM components and architecture

BAM Server is a Java EE application deployed to a standard application server and its architecture leverages the push-based mechanism (using AJAX) to deliver high a volume of data changes in business processes to the frontend web browser in real time. This is also a key differentiator from other reporting solutions that instead use the pulling...