Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 – A Hands-On Tutorial Table Of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: SOA and Its Evolution
Chapter 2: Product Architecture
Chapter 3: The Tutorial Project: Purchase Order Processing
Chapter 4: Product Installation
Chapter 5: Basic components: Web Services Binding, Mediator, and Database Adapter
Chapter 6: Accessing Files Using the File Adapter
Chapter 7: Creating Processes Using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
Chapter 8: Creating Human Tasks
Chapter 9: Business Rules
Chapter 10: Using the JMS Adapter
Chapter 11: Reusing and Virtualizing Services with Oracle Service Bus
Chapter 12: Exploring Application Life Cycle Management
Chapter 13: Unit-testing the Composite Application
Chapter 14: Adding Exception Handling
Chapter 15: Securing Services
Chapter 16: Gaining Visibility into Your Process Activities
Chapter 17: Event Delivery Network
Chapter 18: Data Handling with Service Data Objects (SDO)
Chapter 19: Connecting to Trading Partners (B2B)
Chapter 20: Concluding Remarks
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: SOA and Its Evolution
  • SOA and services—what and why
  • SOA—past, present, and future
  • Composition, SCA, and service platform
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Product Architecture
  • Oracle SOA Suite 11g: Release drivers
  • Challenges solved by Oracle SOA Suite 11g
    • Simplifying the design-time environment
      • Composite Editor to assemble heterogeneous technologies
      • Streamlining life cycle management
      • Metadata Storage (MDS) for tighter control and governance
      • Event-Delivery Network (EDN) to reconcile Event-Driven and Service-Oriented Architectures
    • Unifying runtimes for performance and simplified deployment
      • Removing inefficiencies through the Service Infrastructure
      • Eliminating redundancies by sharing components
      • Simplifying installation and deployment
    • Increasing visibility and streamlining management
      • Enterprise Manager for end-to-end monitoring
      • Global, policy-driven security
      • Exception handling
  • Summary of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g components

• Chapter 3: The Tutorial Project: Purchase Order Processing
  • Structure of the tutorial
  • Tutorial scenario
  • Overview of the tutorial chapters
  • Tutorial files
  • Documentation

• Chapter 4: Product Installation
  • Checking your installation
  • What you will need and where to get it
    • Memory and Disk Space requirements
    • Downloading files
    • Checking your database
    • Checking your browser
    • Checking your JDK
  • Installing Admin Server and Managed Servers
    • Installing WebLogic Server
    • Dropping the existing schema
    • Configuring schema
    • Installing SOA
    • Creating Domain
  • Installing JDeveloper and SOA Composite Editor
  • Installing JDeveloper
    • Updating JDeveloper with latest SOA
  • Additional actions
    • Setting memory limits
    • Starting and stopping
      • Starting
      • Console URLs
      • Stopping servers
    • WebLogic Server console settings
    • EM settings for development
    • If you need to uninstall JDeveloper and servers
  • Configuration
    • Installing the database schema
    • Creating the JMS resources
    • Creating the database resource
  • Testing your installation
    • Oracle Service Bus installation
    • Testing your OSB installation
    • Removing samples (optional)
    • Uninstalling OSB
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Basic components: Web Services Binding, Mediator, and Database Adapter
  • Introducing the basic components
  • Tutorial: Building the credit card validation service
    • Overview
    • Designing the flow
      • Creating a new application and project
      • Adding the Database Adapter
      • Adding the Mediator component
      • Adding the Web Service binding
      • Adding a transformation to the Mediator component
    • Deploying and testing the composite application
      • Creating a server connection in JDeveloper
      • Deploying Composites to the Application Server
      • Testing your composite using Enterprise Manager
  • Summary
  • Quick-build instructions

• Chapter 6: Accessing Files Using the File Adapter
  • Introducing the File Adapter
  • Tutorial: Building the purchase order routing service
    • Designing the flow
      • Creating a new application
      • Adding the service interface
      • Adding the routing component
      • Adding the File Adapter
      • Wiring the components together and adding a transformation
      • Deploying the application
      • Testing the application
  • Summary
  • Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 7: Creating Processes Using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
  • Introducing BPEL
    • Long-running services
    • BPEL language
    • BPEL Editor
  • Tutorial: Orchestration of credit card validation service in POProcessing
    • Designing the flow
    • Invoking the CreditCardStatus service
    • Designing the BPEL approval process
    • Modifying the Mediator component
    • Deploying the application
    • Testing the application
    • Modifying the application for small orders
  • Summary
  • Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 8: Creating Human Tasks
  • Introducing the Human Task component
    • Functional details
    • Human Workflow Service
    • Worklist application

• Tutorial: Adding Manual Approval in PO Processing
  • Designing the flow
  • Adding a Human Task to the composite
  • Calling the Human Task from BPEL
  • Creating the task form for task details
  • Deploying and testing the application

• Summary
• Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 9: Business Rules
  • Introducing Business Rules decision service
    • Rules design
  • Tutorial: Adding an approval rule using the decision service in POProcessing
    • Designing the flow
    • Adding a Business Rule to POProcessing
    • Deploying POProcessing composite
    • Running the application
    • Quick-build instructions
  • Introducing Business Rules decision table
    • Designing the flow
    • Adding a BPEL Process and a Business Rule
    • Defining the Business Rule
    • Defining the BPEL process
    • Invoking FulfillmentProcess
    • Deploying the application
    • Testing the application
  • Quick-build Instructions
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Using the JMS Adapter
  • Introducing the JMS Adapter
    • WebLogic JMS
    • JMS Adapter
  • Tutorial: Orchestration of JMS services in the fulfillment process
    • Adding the JMS adapters to the composite
    • Invoking the services from BPEL
    • Deploying the application
    • Testing the application
  • Summary
  • Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 11: Reusing and Virtualizing Services with Oracle Service Bus
  • Introducing Oracle Service Bus
    • What are the types of changes that OSB can absorb?
    • Who are the users?
    • OSB terminology: Business services and proxies
    • What about governance and discovery?
    • OSB for Financial Services
  • Tutorial: Virtualization of services
    • Designing the flow
    • Creating the project and importing resources
    • Configuring Business Service
    • Configuring the Proxy
    • Configuring Message Flow
    • Re-wiring POProcessing composite
    • Testing the end-to-end application
  • Summary
  • Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 12: Exploring Application Life Cycle Management
  • Introducing life cycle management features
  • Tutorial: Solution deployment
    • Development environment approach
      • Surfacing binding properties at the composite level
      • Generating and modifying a configuration plan
    • Test environment approach
      • Compiling and packaging from the command line with ANT
      • Deploying from the command line with ANT
    • Production environment approach
      • Deploying from Enterprise Manager
  • Summary
  • Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 13: Unit-testing the Composite Application
  • Introducing the built-in testing framework
  • Tutorial: Automated unit testing
    • Creating the unit test
    • Setting the inbound message
    • Setting the simulated message
    • Setting the assertion for success
    • Setting the assertion for failure
    • Testing the application
  • Summary
  • Quick-build instructions

• Chapter 14: Adding Exception Handling
  • Introducing exception handling
    • System faults
    • Business faults
    • Exception handling in Oracle SOA Suite 11g
    • Exception-handling strategies
    • Policy-based fault-handling framework
      • Defining a policy
      • Binding a policy
  • Tutorial: Fault handling and fault policies
    • Handling remote faults
    • Testing service unavailability
    • Creating a fault policy
    • Handling exceptions in BPEL
    • Using a custom Java fault handler
    • Handling Mediator faults
  • Summary
  • Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 15: Securing Services
  • Introducing security policy management
    • Securing your composites using Oracle Web Services Manager
    • Identity management
    • Use SSL
    • A quick look at the policy management UI
  • Tutorial: Securing the credit card validation service
    • Defining a new user
    • Attaching the policies
    • Detaching policies
    • Attaching and detaching policies in JDeveloper
  • Summary
    • Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 16: Gaining Visibility into Your Process Activities
  • Introducing Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
    • Oracle BAM Server
    • Oracle BAM Web Application
  • Tutorial: Monitoring Business Activity in PO Processing
    • Defining the data object
    • Defining the BAM dashboard
    • Configuring BAM Adapter on Weblogic Server
    • Adding a BAM connection to POProcessing
    • Adding a BAM Adapter to POProcessing
    • Modifying the Mediator component
    • Testing the adapter connection
    • Adding BAM sensors to the BPEL process
    • Deploying and running the composite
  • Summary
  • Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 17: Event Delivery Network
  • Introducing events
    • Creating and managing event definitions
    • Consuming events from the Event Delivery Network
  • Tutorial: Use of Event Delivery Network (EDN) and POProcessing
    • Modifying the composite to consume events
      • Defining the event
      • Subscribing to the NewPO event
      • Deploying and testing
  • Summary
    • Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 18: Data Handling with Service Data Objects (SDO)
  • Introduction to Service Data Objects
    • Key components
      • Oracle SOA Suite 11g SDO Support
  • Tutorial: Using a Service Data Object
    • Preparing for the lab
    • Creating the ADF Business Component service
      • ADF Business Components, a quick primer
      • Creating an ADF-BC application
      • Creating the Business Components
      • Testing the application module
      • Creating the service interface
      • Deploying the service
      • Testing the Customer SDO service
    • Using the new ADF-BC Service in the POProcessing composite
      • Adding the CustomerSDOService as a reference
      • Using the SDO in BPEL
      • Deploying and Testing
  • Summary
  • Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 19: Connecting to Trading Partners (B2B)
  • Introducing B2B integration
    • B2B characteristics
    • Oracle B2B
    • Composites and B2B
    • Document management
      • Challenges due to evolving standards
      • EDI is not XML
    • Trading partner profiles and agreement
  • Tutorial: Triggering POProcessing using B2B transactions
    • Defining the B2B configuration
      • Creating a document definition
      • Defining the trading partners
      • Creating a listening channel
      • Creating an agreement
    • Creating the composite: B2Bprocessing
    • Testing the process
  • Summary
  • Quick-build Instructions

• Chapter 20: Concluding Remarks

• Index

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