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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

BTM architecture overview


BTM's architecture is based on a series of distributed components (Observers, Monitor Servers, and Central Servers) that constantly interact in order to capture, process, analyze, and present transactional data in a human-readable fashion.

The following diagram shows a high-level architecture view of BTM:

As can be appreciated from the above diagram, BTM consists of:

  • Observers: They are basically agents that are deployed into the application server(s) that host the business application(s) that participate in a SOA transaction and therefore require monitoring. Observers can monitor several types of components and there are different types based upon the system or application that they monitor. For example, in the case of Weir & Bell Telecom, the following observers were used:

    • BTMObserver_Wls_10.3_JavaEE_*.zip: It is an observer for Java EE on WebLogic 10.3.x.

    • BTMObserver_Wls_10.3_Soa11gR1_*.zip: It is an observer for Oracle SOA Suite on WebLogic 10.3.x.

    • BTMObserver_Wls_10...