Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 Developer's Guide

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Oracle SOA Suite
  • Service-oriented architecture in short
    • Service
    • Orientation
    • Architecture
  • Why SOA is different
    • Terminology
    • Interoperability
    • Extension and evolution
    • Reuse in place
  • Service Component Architecture (SCA)
    • Component
    • Service
    • Reference
    • Wire
    • Composite.xml
    • Properties
  • SOA Suite components
    • Services and adapters
    • ESB – service abstraction layer
      • Oracle Service Bus and Oracle Mediator
    • Service orchestration – the BPEL process manager
    • Rules
    • Security and monitoring
      • Active monitoring – BAM
    • Business to Business – B2B
    • Complex Event Processing – CEP
    • Event delivery network
  • SOA Suite architecture
    • Top level
    • Component view
    • Implementation view
    • A recursive example
  • JDeveloper
  • Other components
    • Service repository and registry
      • BPA Suite
    • The BPM Suite
    • Portals and WebCenter
    • Enterprise manager SOA management pack
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Writing your First Composite
  • Installing SOA Suite
  • Writing your first BPEL process
    • Creating an application
    • Creating an SOA project
    • SOA project composite templates
    • Creating a BPEL process
      • Assigning values to variables
    • Deploying the process
    • Testing the BPEL process
    • Adding a Mediator
    • Using the Service Bus
  • Writing our first proxy service
    • Writing the Echo proxy service
    • Creating a Change Session
    • Creating a project
      • Creating the project folders
    • Creating service WSDL
      • Importing a WSDL
    • Creating our business service
    • Creating our proxy service
      • Creating message flow
      • Activating the Echo proxy service
      • Testing our proxy service
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Service-enabling Existing Systems
  • Types of systems
    • Web service interfaces
    • Technology interfaces
    • Application interfaces
  • Java Connector Architecture
  • Creating services from files
    • A payroll use case
    • Reading a payroll file
      • Starting the wizard
      • Naming the service
      • Identifying the operation
      • Defining the file location
      • Selecting specific files
      • Detecting that the file is available
      • Message format
      • Finishing the wizards
    • Throttling the file and FTP adapter
      • Creating a dummy message type
      • Adding an output message to the read operation
      • Using the modified interface
    • Writing a payroll file
      • Selecting the FTP connection
      • Choosing the operation
      • Selecting the file destination
      • Completing the FTP file writer service
    • Moving, copying, and deleting files
      • Generating an adapter
      • Modifying the port type
      • Modifying the binding
      • Configuring file locations through additional header properties
    • Adapter headers
    • Testing the file adapters
  • Creating services from databases
    • Writing to a database
      • Selecting the database schema
      • Identifying the operation type
      • Identifying tables to be operated on
      • Identifying the relationship between tables
      • Under the covers
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Loosely-coupling Services
  • Coupling
    • Number of input data items
    • Number of output data items
    • Dependencies on other services
    • Dependencies of other services on this service
    • Use of shared global data
    • Temporal dependencies
  • Reducing coupling in stateful services
  • Service abstraction tools in SOA Suite
    • Do you have a choice?
    • When to use the Mediator
    • When to use Oracle Service Bus
  • Oracle Service Bus design tools
    • Oracle Workshop for WebLogic
    • Oracle Service Bus Console
  • Service Bus overview
    • Service Bus message flow
  • Virtualizing service endpoints
    • Moving service location
    • Using Adapters in Service Bus
    • Selecting a service to call
  • Virtualizing service interfaces
    • Physical versus logical interfaces
    • Mapping service interfaces
    • Applying canonical form in the Service Bus
      • An important optimization
  • Using the Mediator for virtualization
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Using BPEL to Build Composite Services and Business Processes
  • Basic structure of a BPEL process
    • Core BPEL process
      • Variables
    • Partner links
    • Messaging activities
      • Synchronous messaging
      • Asynchronous messaging
  • A simple composite service
    • Creating our StockQuote service
      • Importing StockService schema
    • Calling the external web services
      • Calling the web service
      • Assigning values to variables
      • Testing the process
      • Calling the exchange rate web service
      • Assigning constant values to variables
      • Using the expression builder
    • Asynchronous service
      • Using the wait activity
    • Improving the stock trade service
      • Creating the while loop
      • Checking the price
      • Using the switch activity
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Adding in Human Workflow
  • Workflow overview
  • Leave approval workflow
    • Defining the human task
      • Specifying task parameters
      • Specifying task assignment and routing policy
    • Invoking our human task from BPEL
    • Creating the user interface to process the task
      • Running the workflow process
  • Processing tasks with the worklist application
  • Improving the workflow
    • Dynamic task assignment
      • Assigning tasks to multiple users or groups
    • Cancelling or modifying a task
      • Withdrawing a task
      • Modifying a task
      • Difference between task owner and initiator
    • Requesting additional information about a task
  • Managing the assignment of tasks
    • Reassigning reportee tasks
      • Reassigning your own task
      • Delegating tasks
      • Escalating tasks
    • Using rules to automatically manage tasks
      • Setting up a sample rule
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Using Business Rules to Define Decision Points
  • Business rule concepts
    • XML facts
    • Decision services
  • Leave approval business rule
    • Creating a decision service
    • Implementing our business rules
    • Adding a rule to our ruleset
      • Creating the IF clause
      • Creating the Then clause
  • Calling a business rule from BPEL
    • Assigning facts
  • Using functions
    • Creating a function
    • Testing a function
    • Testing decision service functions
    • Invoking a function from within a rule
  • Using decision tables
    • Defining a bucket set
    • Creating a decision table
    • Conflict resolution
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Using Business Events
  • How EDN differs from traditional messaging
  • A sample use case
  • Event Delivery Network essentials
    • Events
    • Event publishers
      • Publishing an event using the Mediator component
      • Publishing an event using BPEL
      • Publishing an event using Java
    • Event subscribers
      • Consuming an event using Mediator
      • Consuming an event using BPEL
  • EDN publishing patterns with SOA Suite
    • Publishing an event on receipt of a message
    • Publishing an event on a synchronous message response
    • Publishing an event on a synchronous message request and reply
    • Publishing an event on an asynchronous response
    • Publishing an event on an asynchronous message request and reply
    • Publishing an event on an event
  • Monitoring event processing in Enterprise Manager
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Building Real-time Dashboards
  • How BAM differs from traditional business intelligence
  • Oracle BAM scenarios

• BAM architecture
  • Logical view
  • Physical view
    • Acquire
    • Store
    • Process
    • Deliver
  • Steps in using BAM
  • User interface

• Monitoring process state
  • Defining reports and data required
  • Defining data objects
    • A digression on populating data object fields
  • Instrumenting BPEL and SCA
    • Invoking the BAM adapter as a regular service
    • Invoking the BAM adapter through BPEL sensors
  • Testing the events
  • Creating a simple dashboard

• Monitoring process status
• Monitoring KPIs
• Summary

• Chapter 10: oBay Introduction
  • oBay requirements
    • User registration
      • User login
    • Selling items
      • List a new item
      • Completing the sale
      • View account
    • Buying items
      • Search for items
      • Bidding on items
  • Defining our blueprint for SOA
    • Architecture goals
    • Typical SOA Architecture
      • Application services layer
      • Virtual services layer
      • Business services layer
      • Business process
      • User interface layer
      • One additional layer
  • Where the SOA Suite fits
    • Composite application
      • Composite granularity
      • Basic composite design pattern
    • Where to implement virtual services
      • Mediator as a proxy for a composite
      • Mediator as a proxy for an external reference
      • Using a composite as a virtual service
      • Service invocation between composite applications
  • oBay high-level architecture
    • oBay application services
      • Workflow services
      • External web services
      • oBay developed services
    • oBay internal virtual services
    • oBay business services
      • oBay business processes
    • oBay user interface
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Designing the Service Contract
  • Using XML Schema to define business objects
    • Modeling data in XML
      • Data decomposition
      • Data hierarchy
      • Data semantics
      • Using attributes for metadata
    • Schema guidelines
      • Element naming
      • Namespace considerations
    • Partitioning the canonical model
      • Single namespace
      • Multiple namespaces
  • Using WSDL to define business services
    • Use Document (literal) wrapped
  • Building your abstract WSDL document
    • WSDL namespace
    • Defining the 'wrapper' elements
    • Defining the 'message' elements
    • Defining the 'PortType' Element

• Using XML Schema and the WSDL within SOA Suite
  • Sharing XML Schemas across composites
    • Defining an MDS connection
    • Importing schemas from MDS
    • Manually importing schemas
    • Deploying schemas to the SOA infrastructure
  • Importing the WSDL document into a composite
  • Sharing XML Schemas in the Service Bus
  • Importing the WSDL document into the Service Bus

• Strategies for managing change
  • Major and minor versions
    • Service implementation versioning
  • Schema versioning
    • Changing schema location
    • Updating schema version attribute
    • Resisting changing the schema namespace
  • WSDL versioning
    • Incorporating changes to the canonical model
    • Changes to the physical contract
    • Updating the service endpoint
    • Including version identifiers in the WSDL definition
    • Managing the service lifecycle

• Summary

• Chapter 12: Building Entity Services Using Service Data Objects (SDOs)
  • Service Data Objects
    • Oracle 11g R1 support for SDO
      • Oracle SOA Suite 11g SDO support
  • Implementing a Service Data Object
    • Overview of ADF Business Components
    • Creating our ListingSDO application
      • Creating our Listing Business Components
      • Defining Entity objects
      • Defining updatable View objects
      • Defining the application module
      • Testing the listing ADF-BC in JDeveloper
    • Generating the primary key using an Oracle Sequence
      • Creating the ADF extension class for EntityImpl
      • Updating default ADF base classes
      • Configuring Listing entity to use Oracle Sequence
    • Creating the ListingSDO service interface
      • Enabling master detail updates
    • Deploying the Service Data Object
      • Creating a service deployment profile
      • Setting Web Context Root
    • Registering SDO with SOA infrastructure
      • Registering the ListingSDO as an RMI service
      • Configuring global JDBC data source
      • Determining the SDO registry key
  • Using the ListingSDO in an SOA composite
    • Creating an ADF-BC Service Reference
    • Invoking the SDO from BPEL
      • Creating an entity variable
      • Creating a Listing entity
      • Binding to the Listing entity
      • Inserting a detail SDO into a master SDO
      • Updating a detail SDO
      • Deleting a detail SDO
      • Deleting a Service Data Object
    • Exposing the SDO as a business service
  • Summary

• Chapter 13: Building Validation into Services
  • Validation within a composite
  • Using XML Schema validation
    • Strongly-typed services
    • Loosely-typed services
    • Combined approach
    • Schema validation within the Mediator
      • Using schema validation within BPEL PM
    • Using schema validation within the Service Bus
      • Validation of inbound documents
      • Validation of outbound documents
  • Using Schematron for validation
    • Overview of Schematron
      • Assertions
      • Rules
      • Patterns
      • Namespaces
      • Schema
    • Intermediate validation
      • Cross field validation
      • Date validation
      • Element present
    • Using Schematron within the Mediator
      • Using the Metadata Service to hold Schematron files
      • Returning Schematron errors
    • Using Schematron with the Service Bus
  • Putting validation in the underlying service
    • Using Business Rules for validation
    • Coding in validation
    • Returning validation failures in synchronous services
      • Defining faults
      • Custom fault codes
      • Validation failures in asynchronous services
  • Layered validation considerations
    • Dangers of over validation
    • Dangers of under validation
    • Negative coupling of validation
  • Summary

• Chapter 14: Error Handling
  • Business faults
    • Defining faults in synchronous services
    • Defining faults in asynchronous services
  • Handling business faults in BPEL
    • Catching faults
      • Adding a catch branch
      • Throwing faults
    • Compensation
      • Defining compensation
      • Triggering a Compensation handler
      • Adding a Compensate activity
    • Returning faults
      • Asynchronous Considerations
  • Handling business faults in Mediators
    • Synchronous Mediators
      • System faults
    • Asynchronous Mediators
      • Using timeouts
  • Using the fault management framework
    • Using the fault management framework in BPEL
    • Using the fault management framework in Mediator
    • Defining a fault policies file
      • Defining a fault policy
    • Defining fault policy conditions
      • Specifying the <faultName>
      • Specifying the <condition>
    • Defining fault policy actions
      • Retry action
      • Human intervention action
      • Abort action
      • Rethrow action
      • Replay scope action
      • Java action
    • Binding fault policies
  • Defining bindings on the composite
    • Binding resolution
  • Using MDS to hold fault policy files
  • Human intervention in Fusion Middleware Control Console

• Handling faults within the Service Bus
  • Handling faults in synchronous proxy services
    • Raising an error
    • Defining an error handler
    • Handling unexpected faults
    • Returning a SOAP Fault
    • Adding a service error handler
    • Handling permanent faults
    • Handling transient faults
  • Handling faults in one-way proxy services

• Summary

• Chapter 15: Advanced SOA Suite Architecture
  • Relationship of infrastructure to service engines
  • Composite execution and suspension
    • BPEL dehydration events
  • Threading and message delivery in SOA Suite
    • One-way message delivery
    • Immediate execution of one-way messages in BPEL
    • Activation agent threads
    • Dispatcher threads
  • Transactions
    • BPEL transactions
      • BPEL component properties
      • BPEL partner link properties
      • BPEL activities
    • Transactions and thread wrinkles in BPEL
      • Reply handling
    • Oracle Service Bus (OSB) transactions
      • Transactional binding
      • Non-transactional binding
    • Comparison to EJB
  • Clustering
    • Load balancing
    • JMS considerations
    • Testing considerations
    • Adapter considerations
    • Metadata repository considerations
      • Database connections
  • Summary

• Chapter 16: Message Interaction Patterns
  • Messaging within a composite
    • Processing of messages within the Mediator
    • Processing of messages within BPEL PM
  • Message addressing
    • Multi-protocol support
    • Message correlation
    • WS-Addressing
      • Request message with WS-Addressing
      • Response message with WS-Addressing
  • Using BPEL correlation sets
    • Using correlation sets for multiple process interactions
      • Defining a correlation set property
      • Defining correlation set
      • Using correlation sets
      • Defining property aliases
  • Message aggregation
    • Message routing
      • Correlating the callback
      • Specifying the reply to address
    • Creating a proxy process
      • Using the pick activity
      • Defining the correlation sets
    • Completing the aggregation
  • Scheduling services
    • Defining the schedule file
    • Using FlowN
      • Accessing branch-specific data in FlowN
    • Dynamic partner links
      • Defining a common interface
      • Defining a job partner link
    • Recycling the scheduling file
  • Summary

• Chapter 17: Workflow Patterns
  • Managing multiple participants in a workflow
    • Using multiple assignment and routing policies
      • Determining the outcome by a group vote
    • Using multiple human tasks
      • Linking individual human tasks
  • Using the workflow API
    • Defining the order fulfillment human task
      • Specifying task parameters
      • Specifying the routing policy
      • Notification settings
    • Querying task instances
      • Defining an external reference for the Task Query Service
      • User authentication
      • Querying tasks
  • Flex fields
    • Populating flex fields
    • Accessing flex fields
    • Specifying the query predicate
    • Using flex fields in the query predicate
    • Ordering the data
  • Getting task details
  • Updating a task instance
  • Using the updateTask operation
  • Updating the task payload
  • Updating the task flex fields
  • Updating the task outcome
  • Summary

• Chapter 18: Using Business Rules to Implement Services
  • How the rule engine works
    • Asserting facts
    • Executing the ruleset
      • Rule activation
      • Rule firing
    • Retrieving result
    • Session management
    • Debugging a ruleset
      • Debugging a decision service with a test function
      • Debugging a decision service within a composite
      • Using the print function to add additional logging
  • Using business rules to implement auction
    • Defining our XML facts
    • Defining the business rule
      • Configuring the decision function
  • Using a global variable to reference the resultset
    • Defining a global variable
    • Defining a rule to initialize a global variable
  • Writing our auction rules
    • Evaluating facts in date order
      • Checking for non-existent fact
      • Updating the bid status
    • Using inference
      • Processing the next valid bid
    • Using functions to manipulate XML facts
      • Asserting a winning bid
      • Retracting a losing bid
      • Rules to process a new winning bid
      • Validating the next bid
      • Rule to process a losing bid
    • Complete ruleset
  • Performance considerations
    • Managing state within the BPEL process

• Summary

• Chapter 19: Packaging and Deployment
  • The need for packaging
    • Problems with moving between environments
    • Types of interface
      • Web interfaces
      • Command-line interfaces
  • SOA Suite packaging
    • Oracle Service Bus
    • Oracle SOA composites
      • Deploying a SCA composite via the EM Console
      • Deploying a SCA composite using Ant
      • Revisions and milestones
      • The default revision
      • Enabling web service endpoint and WSDL location alteration
      • Enabling adapter configuration
      • XML schema locations
      • XSL imports
      • Composite configuration plan framework
    • Web services security
    • Oracle rules
    • Business activity monitoring
      • Commands
      • Selecting items
      • Using iCommand
  • Summary

• Chapter 20: Testing Composite Applications
  • SOA Suite testing model
  • One-off testing
    • Testing composites
    • Testing the Service Bus
  • Automated testing
  • The composite test framework
  • Composite test suites
    • Injecting data into the test case
    • Data validation
    • Emulating components and references
    • Deploying and running test suites
  • Regression testing
  • System testing
  • Composite testing
  • Component testing
  • Unit testing
  • Performance testing
  • User interface testing
  • Summary

• Chapter 21: Defining Security and Management Policies
  • Security and management challenges in the SOA environment
    • Evolution of security and management
    • Added complications of SOA environment
      • Security Impacts of SOA
      • Management and monitoring impacts of SOA
  • Securing services
    • Security outside the SOA Suite
      • Network security
      • Preventing message interception
      • Restricting access to services
    • Declarative security versus explicit security
      • Security as a facet
      • Security as a service
    • Security model
    • Policy enforcement points
    • Policies
    • Agents and gateways
      • Distinctive benefits of gateways and agents
      • The gateway dilemma
    • Service Bus model
  • Defining policies
    • Creating a new policy to perform authentication and authorization
      • Creating the authorization policy
    • Applying a policy through the Service Bus Console
      • Importing a policy
      • Applying OWSM policies in Service Bus
    • Final thoughts on security
  • Monitoring services
    • Monitoring service health in SOA Suite
      • System up-down status
      • System throughput view
    • Monitoring in the Service Bus
      • Creating an alert destination
      • Enabling service monitoring
      • Creating an alert rule
      • Monitoring the service
    • What makes a good SLA
  • Summary

• Index

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