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Getting Started with Oracle SOA B2B Integration: A Hands-On Tutorial

By : Krishnaprem Bhatia, Alan Perlovsky, Scott Haaland
Book Image

Getting Started with Oracle SOA B2B Integration: A Hands-On Tutorial

By: Krishnaprem Bhatia, Alan Perlovsky, Scott Haaland

Overview of this book

<p>Enterprises engaging in B2B communications with their trading partners are facing increased pressure to increase automation and reduce costs. Increased compliance requirements and globalization of economies is fueling B2B adoption in every industry. Gateway solutions in Oracle SOA B2B enable these enterprises to connect easily with external trading partners.</p> <p>Getting Started with Oracle SOA B2B Integration: A Hands-On Tutorial will show you how to use Oracle B2B platform to extend your current business processes to connect with your external trading partners in an automated, secure fashion, using industry standard B2B protocols. It will show you how to set up documents, partners and agreements and manage your B2B transactions end-to-end, all the way from application to trading partners and vice versa</p> <p>Starting with an introduction to the B2B industry you then be introduced to Oracle B2B and SOA platforms. You will then begin creat document definitions and get you started with trading partner management. Once you have a solid grounding you will then be taken into the more complex topic of SOA. Integration, reporting, and monitoring will all be covered in detail.</p> <p>Then you will be shown how to secure your B2B distribution, security is an essential part of all businesses and B2B is no different. Finally you will be introduced to advanced topics that should give you the skills and knowledge to easily go out and do all of this again with next to no guidance.</p> <p>Utilizing the combined experienced of one of the most knowledgeable Oracle B2B author teams assembled this step-by-step practical guide provides you with the essential information required to implement Oracle B2B solutions including multiple hands-on tutorials that will help you get up and running quickly.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Getting Started with Oracle SOA B2B Integration: A Hands-On Tutorial
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Oracle B2B interface quick tour


Oracle B2B 11g comes with the redesigned B2B user interface (or, as Oracle calls it, the B2B interface). It has a lot of new cool features for administrators, remote trading partners, developers, and business analysts.

The Oracle B2B user interface is a web application that is deployed as a standalone war file on the same managed server as the SOA Service Infrastructure. Oracle B2B UI application is stateful, and stores information in the HTTP Session.

Note

The web application is stateful when the server makes sure that the same instance is being used for all requests from a given client. This also means that, while an instance is serving a client, the server should not use the same instance for other client requests. One important ramification of statefulness is that the server will maintain a separate instance for each client. Oracle B2B interface uses session beans to maintain state on behalf of a user.

Understanding of these principles is helpful for Chapter...