Oracle SOA Infrastructure Implementation Certification Handbook (1Z0-451)

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Overview of Oracle SOA Certification
• Introduction to Oracle and the products
• Oracle acquisition
• Introducing Oracle SOA Suite 11g
• New features in Oracle SOA Suite 11g
• Oracle SOA certification objectives
• Why get certified?
• Exam details
• Registration procedure
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Service-Oriented Architecture Concepts
• What is SOA?
• Do we really benefit a lot by designing applications using this method?
• What is the business significance of this new architecture?
• Do we need to learn new languages in doing this?
• Describing the SOA concepts
• Identifying standards that enable SOA
• WS-Messaging standards
• WS-Service Description and Discovery standards
• WS-Reliability standards
• WS-Transaction standards
• WS-Security standards
• WS-Business Process standards
• WS-Management standards
• Describing the Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
• A real world example to understand EDA
• EDA with Oracle SOA Suite 11g
• Process followed in publishing and subscribing events
• Features of Oracle SOA Suite 11g—EDN
• Reviewing the Service Component Architecture (SCA)
• SCA with Oracle SOA Suite 11g
• Summary
• Self-review questions

• Chapter 3: SOA Composite Application
• Oracle SOA Suite 11g components
• Oracle SOA component description: BPEL
• Oracle SOA component description: Mediator
• Oracle SOA component description: Business Rules
• Oracle SOA component description: Human Task
• Oracle SOA component description: Adapter
• Oracle SOA component description: Business Activity Monitor
• Oracle SOA component description: B2B
• Oracle SOA component description: MDS
• SOA Composite Editor
• Defining an Oracle SOA Composite application
• Summary
• Self-review questions

• Chapter 4: Working with Adapters
• Introduction to Java Connector architecture
• Adapter concepts and framework
• Technology adapters: File, Database, JMS, and so on
• Applications adapters: E-Biz Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and SAP
• Adapter design-time configuration
• File adapter configuration
• FTP adapter configuration
• MQ series adapter configuration details
• Socket adapter service configuration
• Direct Binding
• HTTP binding wizard
• Explain the runtime configuration
• Summary
• Self-review questions

• Chapter 5: Orchestrating Services with BPEL
• What BPEL helps to accomplish
• Is BPEL a game changing technology?
• Synchronous and asynchronous BPEL processes
• Synchronous
• Asynchronous – one-way
• Asynchronous – bi-directional
• BPEL components activities and Partner Links
• Parallel flow and conditional branching
• BPEL integration with Java
• Summary
• Self-review questions
• Additional reference

• Chapter 6: Advanced BPEL Concepts
• Exception handling in composite applications
• System faults and custom faults
• The fault management framework
• The fault policy resolution process
• Compensation handling within a BPEL process
• Correlation concepts
• Property and property alias
• Summary
• Self-review questions

• Chapter 7: Working with Mediator Concepts and Features
• What the Mediator is not?
• The Mediator component and its features
• Creating and configuring a Mediator service component and creating Mediator routing rules
• Configuring a Mediator
• Configuring a Mediator to subscribe to an Event
• Fault Management in a Mediator
• Mediator error groups
• Summary
• Self-review questions

• Chapter 8: Human Workflow
• Oracle Human Workflow architecture
• Human Workflow service engine
• Human Workflow services
• Oracle Worklist Application
• Oracle Human Workflow features
• Oracle Human Workflow concepts
• Participant
• Task assignment
• Routing policy
• Ad-hoc routing
• Task stakeholders
• Task deadlines
• Notifications
• Task forms
• Stages
• Access rules
• Standalone human tasks
• Callbacks
• Events
• Designing human tasks and services
• General
• Data
• Assignment
• Deadline
• Notification
• Access level
• Events
• Invoking a human task from a BPEL process
• Calling the human task from BPEL
• Summary
• Self-review questions

• Chapter 9: Business Rules
• The Oracle Business Rules Architecture and Oracle Rule Engine details
• The Rule Engine working model
• Oracle Business Rules concepts
• Creating rules in JDeveloper Rule Designer
• Integrating simple Business Rules with the BPEL process
• Wiring the Business Rule component through SOA Composite
• Including the Business Rule as an activity to the BPEL process
• Testing Business Rules from JDeveloper
• Editing Business Rules from SOA Composer
• Summary
• Self-review questions

• Chapter 10: Securing Services and Composite Applications
• Web Services and composite security
• Transport-level security
• Application-level security
• XML Encryption (data confidentiality)
• XML Signature
• WS-Security
• WS-Security tokens
• WS-Policy
• WS-SecurityPolicy
• Web Services Addressing (WS-Addressing)
• WS-ReliableMessaging
• The Fusion Middleware Security architecture
• Security policy management and identity propagation
• OWSM Agents
• Summary
• Self-review questions

• Chapter 11: SOA Integration Points
• The Oracle Service Bus concepts and architecture
• OSB product architecture
• Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
• The Oracle BAM architecture
• The Oracle BAM server
• The Oracle BAM web applications
• The Oracle BAM ADF control
• Integrating BAM with Oracle SOA Suite
• Oracle B2B
• Features of an Oracle B2B product
• Industry-standard protocols supported by Oracle B2B
• Oracle B2B 11g home page
• Oracle B2B deploy agreement
• Oracle B2B metrics report
• Oracle B2B Reference Integration Architecture
• Summary
• Self-review questions

• Chapter 12: Monitoring and Managing SOA 11g Deployment
• Deploying and undeploying the SOA composite application
• Using JDeveloper to deploy the composites
• Using the SOA EM SOA deployment wizard to deploy the SAR file generated through JDeveloper
• Generating the SAR file through JDeveloper
• Deploying the SAR file from the console
• Undeploying composites
• SOA configuration plan
• Management of the SOA composite application using the Enterprise Manager
• SOA farms and topology features
• Managing and monitoring the SOA composite
• SOA EM Export features
• Export options
• Monitoring SOA Service Engines
• Engine-level Dashboard view
• BPEL Engine Statistics
• Monitoring SOA performance
• Managing soa-infra and Service Engine properties
• The Enterprise Manager Grid Control in the SOA Management Packs
• Summary
• Self-review questions
• Additional references

• Appendix A: Pre-assessment Test

• Appendix B: Post-assessment Test

• Appendix C: Exam Reference
• SOA concepts
• SOA composite applications
• Working with adapters
• Orchestrating services with BPEL
• Advanced BPEL concepts
• Mediator
• Business Rules
• Human workflow
• Monitoring and managing SOA 11g deployment
• SOA 11g integration points
• Miscellaneous

• Appendix D: Answers
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Appendix A
• Appendix B

• Index