Cover -- Table of Contents -- 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 -- Check your browser -- Check your JDK -- Installing Admin Server and Managed Servers -- Installing WebLogic Server -- Dropping the existing schema -- Configuring schema -- Installing SOA -- Create 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 project and import 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 -- Set 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 -- Summary -- Quick-build Instructions -- Chapter 19: Connecting to Trading Partners (B2B).

Introducing B2B integration.