Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook | Oracle Press

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook

Authors: Lucas Jellema

Published: August 2010

eISBN: 9780071608985 0071608982 | ISBN: 9780071608978

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Introducing SOA, St. Matthews, and the Oracle SOA Suite

1 A Typical Case of SOA: Introduction of St. Matthews Hospital Center

Introduction to St. Matthews Hospital Center

The Hospital from an Architectural Point of View

Summary

2 Introduction to Service-Oriented Architecture

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Summary

3 Oracle Fusion Middleware and SOA Suite 11g

SOA Suite 11g: The Key Components

Getting Started with SOA Suite 11g

Migrating from SOA Suite 10.1.3

Summary

Part II: Developing Composite Applications

4 XML and Web Services Fundamentals

Kicking the Tires on the eAppointment Project

Introduction to XML

The Service Contract: Introducing WSDL

Summary

5 First Steps with BPEL and the Database Adapter

Introducing the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)

Implementing the Composite PatientDataService

The PatientDataService BPEL Process in More Detail

Accessing the Database from a BPEL Process

Summary

6 Process-Oriented BPEL

The Start of the Appointment Process

Invoking a Synchronous Web Service: Prepare Instructions

Invoking an Asynchronous Service: Calling the Appointment Scheduler

Sending Notifications from the BPEL Process

Receiving Request Messages in Running BPEL Instances

Dealing with and Compensating for Exceptional Circumstances

Summary

7 Mediator Service for Straight Talk and No Nonsense

The Mediator: From the Real World to the World Inside the SOA Suite

Processing Files with Appointment Requests

Adding Flexibility Using Filtering and Transformation of Messages

Moving to Canonical Messages Using Domain Value Maps

Appointment Requests via a Web Application

Decoupling the Database Adapter Service

Summary

8 Rules Rule—on Decision Services

Deriving the Type of the Appointment

Separating Out Business Logic Using Business Rules

System Parameters and Global Formulas

Using a Decision Table to Establish the Appointment’s Priority

Summary

9 Event-Driven Architecture for Super Decoupling

Event-Driven Architecture for Super Decoupling

First Round with EDN: Consuming Events

Publishing Patient Details Change Events

Event Delivery Network in SCA and BPEL

Decoupling Two-way Services Using the Discussion Forum Approach

Summary

10 The Missing Link: The Human Service Provider

Introducing the Human Task Service

Defining the First Human Task—Approve Highest Priority

The Scheduler Service—Beyond Mere Decisions

Acceptance of New Patient: Complex Task Routing

Advanced Features for Human Tasks

Summary

11 Business Process Management with BPEL and BPMN

Business Process Management (BPM)

Implementing Business Processes Through BPEL and Human Tasks

Introducing BPMN Service Components

Revising the Business Process

Summary

12 Leveraging Java in Composite Applications

Java Integration in Various Ways

Using the JMS Adapter to Loosely Couple with Java Applications

Embedding Java Logic in BPEL Processes

The Spring Context Service Component for Custom Java Service Components

Leveraging the Outbound EJB Binding

Exposing SOA Composite Applications as EJB

Summary

13 Enterprise-Level Decoupling with Oracle Service Bus

Introducing the Oracle Service Bus

Sending Invoices to Patients Who Had Appointments

The PatientAppointmentService and External Parties

Requesting the Appointment Status via E-mail

Requesting the Appointment Status via REST

Parallel Processing of Appointment Requests Using Split-Join

Choosing Between OSB and SCA Composites (and Mediators)

Summary

14 Service Components and Composite Applications According to SCA

Artifacts According to the SCA Specification

The SCA Way of Designing and Developing Applications

Granularity of Service Composites

Summary

Part III: Administration, Security, and Governance

15 For Your Eyes Only

The Case for Security

IT Security

Security in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

Case: Securing SOA Composites

Summary

16 What Is Going On: Monitoring SOA Composite Applications

Monitoring Instances of Composite Applications

Responding to Exceptions in Composite Execution

Managing Composite Instances

Summary

17 Lifecycle Management: Testing and Dealing with Environmental Change

Building and Deploying SOA Composite Applications

Environmentally Friendly Customization Using Configuration Plans

Automated Unit Testing for Composite Applications

Embracing Change

Summary

18 Tactical Management and Governance

Introducing Governance

MDS Repository for Managing and Reusing Shared Artifacts

Service Inventory for Gathering and Publishing

Summary

Part IV: Beyond the Basics

19 From Live Data to Real-time Insight and Action Using Complex Event Processing and Business Activity Monitoring

Sorting Out the Real-time Data Avalanche

Analyzing Continuous Data Streams Through Complex Event Processing

Monitoring Temperature Sensors

Promotion from a Simple, Anonymous Signal to a Business Event

Oracle BAM: Real-time Business Activity Monitoring

Feeding the Output from the Complex Event Processor into the Business Activity Monitoring

Integrating SOA Composites into Business Activity Monitoring

Fine-grained BPEL Tracking Using BAM Sensor Actions

Tracking BPEL Process Execution Using Business Activity Monitoring and the Monitor Express

Summary

20 ADF as UI Glue (and More) in FMW

Very-High-Level Architecture of ADF

Custom User Interface to Request an Appointment

Creating a Custom Human Task Form for ScheduleAppointment

Creating Real-time Dashboards Based on BAM in Custom ADF Applications

ADF Business Components Feeding Events into the EDN

Improving the Efficiency and Elegance of the PatientDataService Using SDO-Bound BPEL Variables—Tighter Data Integration for BPEL Processes

Summary

21 The Bigger Picture: SOA for User Interfaces, SaaS, and the Cloud

Integration at the User Interface Level

Software as a Service and SOA Across the Cloud

Summary

A: Migration from SOA Suite 10g to 11g

Overview of the Migration

Run-time Environment

Software Running on OC4J

Moving from Different Standards and Technologies to SCA

Migrating ESB and BPEL 10g Projects

Summary

Index