An integral component of Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, Oracle BAM Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) ultimately empowers business executives to react quickly to the changing business situations. BAM enables business service and process monitoring through real-time data streaming and operational reports, and this book helps you to take advantage of this vital tool with best practice guidance for building a BAM project.
Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook is an essential companion for advancing your BAM knowledge, with troubleshooting and performance tuning tips to guide you in building BAM applications.
The book uses step-by-step instructions alongside a real world demo project to steer you through the pitfalls of report and application development. Packed with best practices, you'll learn about BAM migration, HA configuration, and much more.
This book comprises a myriad of best practices for building real-time operational dashboards, reports, and alerts.
The book dives straight into the architecture of Oracle BAM 11g, before moving swiftly onto concepts like managing BAM server securities, populating Data Objects, and performing load testing. Later on you'll also learn about BAM migration and building an ADF-based report, plus much more that you won't want to miss.
For focusing in on best practices for this integral tool within Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook is the perfect guide for the job.
Chapter 1, BAM 11gR1 Architecture, introduces the Oracle BAM key concepts, and its high-level architecture.
Chapter 2, Designing your First Data Objects and Reports, covers the basics for designing your Data Objects and reports.
Chapter 3, Populating Data Objects with Real-time Data, explores various technologies, such as Enterprise Message Sources (EMS) , the Oracle BAM Adapter, BPEL Sensors, and Oracle BAM Web services, which can be used to move the business data to BAM.
Chapter 4, Designing BAM Reports, covers the techniques/procedures for designing BAM reports with multiple views to meet your business needs.
Chapter 5, Testing BAM Applications, discusses the testing methodology in general, and the BAM-specific methodology for conducting end-to-end testing under normal and load condition.
Chapter 6, Managing BAM Securities, discusses the key BAM security concepts, which include authentication, authorization, and SSL.
Chapter 7, Migrating BAM to a Different Environment, discusses the best practices for migrating BAM to a different environment.
Chapter 8, Configuring High Availability for BAM, discusses the Oracle BAM high availability solution/best practices in the Application Server tier.
Chapter 9, Troubleshooting your BAM Applications, explores the troubleshooting techniques, methodologies, and case studies.
Chapter 10, Building your Reports Using ADF, discusses how to build reports using the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF).
Hardware requirements:
At least 2G memory, 4G is recommended.
Software requirements:
Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.4 or later releases.
Oracle JDeveloper 11.1.1.4 or later releases. Ensure that the JDeveloper release matches the SOA Suite.
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) browser (7.0 or later release) on your host OS.
If you are a developer/report developer or SOA Architect who wants to learn valuable Oracle BAM best practices for monitoring your operations in real time, then Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook is for you. Administrators will also find the book useful.
You should already be comfortable with SOA architecture and SQL practices.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text are shown as follows: " Let us look at a ChangeList example, which is produced by a ViewSet of the Employees Data Object."
A block of code is set as follows:
<ADCServerName>localhost</ADCServerName> <ADCServerPort>9001</ADCServerPort> <ICommand_Default_User_Name>user</ICommand_Default_User_Name> <ICommand_Default_Password>passwd</ICommand_Default_Password>
When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:
<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<S:Header>
<work:WorkContext xmlns:work="http://oracle.com/weblogic/soap/workarea/">
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</S:Header>
<S:Body>
<ns2:InsertResponse xmlns:ns2="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bam"/>
</S:Body>
</S:Envelope>
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
SOA_HOME/bam/bin/icommand.bat CMD IMPORT FILE <file name>
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: " Among them, Active Data Cache, Report Cache, and Report Server are the major components that are responsible for static and dynamic report rendering ".
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