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Applied SOA Patterns on the Oracle Platform

By : Sergey Popov
Book Image

Applied SOA Patterns on the Oracle Platform

By: Sergey Popov

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Applied SOA Patterns on the Oracle Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
An Introduction to Oracle Fusion – a Solid Foundation for Service Inventory
7
Gotcha! Implementing Security Layers
Index

SOA as a cloud foundation


We would like to conclude this book in the same way we started it, presenting a roadmap for the implementation of SOA patterns / SOA standards, but now, we will try to link SOA and Cloud patterns in order to see the dependencies, which is important for practical implementation. Exactly as in Chapter 1, SOA Ecosystem – Interconnected Principles, Patterns, and Frameworks, we do not intend to show all patterns' relations (at the time of writing this book, in the patterns catalog, we have 39 Design and 13 Compound Cloud patterns), but only those that support the main subject of this book: (Agnostic) Composition Controllers, as enablers of the Composability principle. In the case of cloud, following this particular SOA principle is not enough to fulfil cloud's promises. SOA is just one of the cloud enablers, although an essential one. Other enablers are as follows:

  • Virtualization (literally, of any resources, namely, network, OS, service, DB, and so on)

  • Grid computing...