Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Contents......Page 10
Foreword......Page 19
Acknowledgments......Page 21
Introduction......Page 23
Part I: Introducing SOA, St. Matthews, and the Oracle SOA Suite......Page 28
1 A Typical Case of SOA: Introduction of St. Matthews Hospital Center......Page 30
Introduction to St. Matthews Hospital Center......Page 31
The Hospital from an Architectural Point of View......Page 33
Summary......Page 40
2 Introduction to Service-Oriented Architecture......Page 42
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)......Page 44
Summary......Page 69
3 Oracle Fusion Middleware and SOA Suite 11g......Page 72
SOA Suite 11g: The Key Components......Page 87
Getting Started with SOA Suite 11g......Page 95
Migrating from SOA Suite 10.1.3......Page 106
Summary......Page 107
Part II: Developing Composite Applications......Page 110
4 XML and Web Services Fundamentals......Page 112
Kicking the Tires on the eAppointment Project......Page 113
Introduction to XML......Page 118
The Service Contract: Introducing WSDL......Page 129
Summary......Page 138
5 First Steps with BPEL and the Database Adapter......Page 140
Introducing the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)......Page 141
Implementing the Composite PatientDataService......Page 144
The PatientDataService BPEL Process in More Detail......Page 147
Accessing the Database from a BPEL Process......Page 161
Summary......Page 175
6 Process-Oriented BPEL......Page 176
The Start of the Appointment Process......Page 178
Invoking a Synchronous Web Service: Prepare Instructions......Page 184
Invoking an Asynchronous Service: Calling the Appointment Scheduler......Page 185
Sending Notifications from the BPEL Process......Page 189
Receiving Request Messages in Running BPEL Instances......Page 190
Dealing with and Compensating for Exceptional Circumstances......Page 206
Summary......Page 213
7 Mediator Service for Straight Talk and No Nonsense......Page 214
The Mediator: From the Real World to the World Inside the SOA Suite......Page 215
Processing Files with Appointment Requests......Page 218
Adding Flexibility Using Filtering and Transformation of Messages......Page 237
Moving to Canonical Messages Using Domain Value Maps......Page 248
Appointment Requests via a Web Application......Page 254
Decoupling the Database Adapter Service......Page 256
Summary......Page 258
8 Rules Rule—on Decision Services......Page 260
Deriving the Type of the Appointment......Page 262
Separating Out Business Logic Using Business Rules......Page 275
System Parameters and Global Formulas......Page 278
Using a Decision Table to Establish the Appointment’s Priority......Page 283
Summary......Page 297
9 Event-Driven Architecture for Super Decoupling......Page 298
Event-Driven Architecture for Super Decoupling......Page 299
First Round with EDN: Consuming Events......Page 304
Publishing Patient Details Change Events......Page 314
Event Delivery Network in SCA and BPEL......Page 320
Decoupling Two-way Services Using the Discussion Forum Approach......Page 323
Summary......Page 327
10 The Missing Link: The Human Service Provider......Page 328
Introducing the Human Task Service......Page 329
Defining the First Human Task—Approve Highest Priority......Page 333
The Scheduler Service—Beyond Mere Decisions......Page 350
Acceptance of New Patient: Complex Task Routing......Page 357
Advanced Features for Human Tasks......Page 363
Summary......Page 367
11 Business Process Management with BPEL and BPMN......Page 368
Business Process Management (BPM)......Page 370
Implementing Business Processes Through BPEL and Human Tasks......Page 374
Introducing BPMN Service Components......Page 380
Revising the Business Process......Page 400
Summary......Page 405
12 Leveraging Java in Composite Applications......Page 408
Java Integration in Various Ways......Page 409
Using the JMS Adapter to Loosely Couple with Java Applications......Page 413
Embedding Java Logic in BPEL Processes......Page 421
The Spring Context Service Component for Custom Java Service Components......Page 426
Leveraging the Outbound EJB Binding......Page 436
Exposing SOA Composite Applications as EJB......Page 441
Summary......Page 443
13 Enterprise-Level Decoupling with Oracle Service Bus......Page 446
Introducing the Oracle Service Bus......Page 447
Sending Invoices to Patients Who Had Appointments......Page 456
The PatientAppointmentService and External Parties......Page 464
Requesting the Appointment Status via E-mail......Page 473
Requesting the Appointment Status via REST......Page 480
Parallel Processing of Appointment Requests Using Split-Join......Page 483
Choosing Between OSB and SCA Composites (and Mediators)......Page 484
Summary......Page 486
14 Service Components and Composite Applications According to SCA......Page 488
Artifacts According to the SCA Specification......Page 489
The SCA Way of Designing and Developing Applications......Page 495
Granularity of Service Composites......Page 498
Summary......Page 505
Part III: Administration, Security, and Governance......Page 506
15 For Your Eyes Only......Page 508
The Case for Security......Page 509
IT Security......Page 510
Security in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g......Page 523
Case: Securing SOA Composites......Page 531
Summary......Page 546
16 What Is Going On: Monitoring SOA Composite Applications......Page 548
Monitoring Instances of Composite Applications......Page 549
Responding to Exceptions in Composite Execution......Page 563
Managing Composite Instances......Page 573
Summary......Page 576
17 Lifecycle Management: Testing and Dealing with Environmental Change......Page 578
Building and Deploying SOA Composite Applications......Page 579
Environmentally Friendly Customization Using Configuration Plans......Page 586
Automated Unit Testing for Composite Applications......Page 595
Embracing Change......Page 602
Summary......Page 611
18 Tactical Management and Governance......Page 614
Introducing Governance......Page 616
MDS Repository for Managing and Reusing Shared Artifacts......Page 619
Service Inventory for Gathering and Publishing......Page 627
Summary......Page 633
Part IV: Beyond the Basics......Page 636
19 From Live Data to Real-time Insight and Action Using Complex Event Processing and Business Activity Monitoring......Page 638
Sorting Out the Real-time Data Avalanche......Page 639
Analyzing Continuous Data Streams Through Complex Event Processing......Page 644
Monitoring Temperature Sensors......Page 647
Promotion from a Simple, Anonymous Signal to a Business Event......Page 654
Oracle BAM: Real-time Business Activity Monitoring......Page 660
Feeding the Output from the Complex Event Processor into the Business Activity Monitoring......Page 663
Integrating SOA Composites into Business Activity Monitoring......Page 674
Fine-grained BPEL Tracking Using BAM Sensor Actions......Page 688
Tracking BPEL Process Execution Using Business Activity Monitoring and the Monitor Express......Page 692
Summary......Page 698
20 ADF as UI Glue (and More) in FMW......Page 700
Very-High-Level Architecture of ADF......Page 701
Custom User Interface to Request an Appointment......Page 704
Creating a Custom Human Task Form for ScheduleAppointment......Page 711
Creating Real-time Dashboards Based on BAM in Custom ADF Applications......Page 716
ADF Business Components Feeding Events into the EDN......Page 719
Improving the Efficiency and Elegance of the PatientDataService Using SDO-Bound BPEL Variables—Tighter Data Integration for BPEL Processes......Page 725
Summary......Page 734
21 The Bigger Picture: SOA for User Interfaces, SaaS, and the Cloud......Page 736
Integration at the User Interface Level......Page 737
Software as a Service and SOA Across the Cloud......Page 744
Summary......Page 752
A: Migration from SOA Suite 10g to 11g......Page 754
Overview of the Migration......Page 755
Software Running on OC4J......Page 757
Moving from Different Standards and Technologies to SCA......Page 759
Migrating ESB and BPEL 10g Projects......Page 760
Summary......Page 768
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