Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns -- Table of Contents -- Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- About the Co-Authors -- Preface -- Why Oracle Fusion Middleware? -- Application Infrastructure and Application Grid -- Data Integration -- Business Process Management and Service-Oriented Architecture -- Business Intelligence and Strategic Decision-Support -- Enterprise Portals, Content Management, and Team Collaboration -- Identity Management -- Oracle Fusion Middleware maximizes value for your Oracle applications -- What this book covers -- Section 1: Process Improvement -- Section 2: Business Visibility -- Section 3: Collaboration and Security -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Building Agile Applications using Fusion Development and Oracle Enterprise Architecture Principles -- Enterprise application development challenges -- Fusion development -- Oracle Enterprise Architecture -- IT rationalization at British Telecom Property Group -- BT UniApp Framework -- A quick look inside the UniApp Framework -- Benefits realized by British Telecom -- Process improvement at Pardee Homes -- Four steps to Fusion development -- Summary -- 2. Process-driven SOA Development -- Business Process Management and SOA -- Organizational aspects of SOA development -- Technology aspects of SOA development -- Case study: Process modeling -- Case study: Process implementation -- Development of BPEL executable process -- Development of business services -- BPMN to BPEL Round-tripping -- Guidelines on BPMN to BPEL mapping -- Process execution -- Process monitoring using BAM and optimizations -- Summary -- 3. Code-free Application Extensions and Integrations -- Customer scenario: Travel and expense management.

Native customization of backend travel and expense reimbursement system -- Bolt-on niche application for travel authorization -- Code-free extension and integration of a backend travel and expense reimbursement system -- Programming code-free application extensions and integrations-the platform -- E-Business Suite-iExpense -- Application Development Framework (ADF) -- SOA Composite -- WebCenter -- An MVC approach to creating a composite UI with ADF, SOA, and JDeveloper -- Integrating with E-Business Suite using Oracle SOA and Oracle application adapter -- Building business logic using Oracle SOA and Oracle Business Rules -- Building the BI dashboard with Oracle BI Application Spend Analytics -- Beyond the travel authorization solution-an approach for other applications -- Summary -- 4. Data Tier Caching for SOA Performance -- SOA caching strategies -- Providing a 360-degree customer view -- Solution using Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Coherence -- BPEL: Coherence integration architecture -- Integrating Oracle BPEL PM with Oracle Coherence -- Step 1: Create the schema for request and response, and WSDL for the cache service -- Step 2: Create Java objects from the schemas -- Step 3: Create the Java implementation class to call Coherence -- Step 4: Create coherence_config.xml to configure Coherence -- Step 5: Package Coherence.jar and Tangosol.jar within BPEL JAR -- Step 6: Deploy and verify the process -- Summary -- 5. Integrated Real-time Intelligence with Oracle's WebCenter, Coherence, and Business Activity Monitoring -- Understanding real-time intelligence -- Reference architecture -- Building a real-time call center application at DJO -- Case study architecture -- Step 1: Event generation and orchestration -- Step 2: Event detection and absorption -- Step 3: Processing and filtering -- Step 4: Real-time availability.

Step 5: Representation and visualization -- Step 6: User interaction and personalization -- Summary -- 6. Achieving Business Insight by Integrating Relational and Multi-dimensional Data -- Integration architecture -- 1st Principle: Integrate heterogeneous data population -- 2nd Principle: Build a common enterprise information model -- 3rd Principle: Enable flexible reporting -- Energy efficiency management and monitoring with EMMA -- EMMA architecture -- Heterogeneous data population -- Common enterprise information model -- Flexible reporting -- University energy efficiency management -- Step 1: Data from meter and security systems -- Step 2: EMMA OLTP data structure -- Step 3: EMMA data mart structure -- Step 4: EMMA OLAP data structure -- Step 5: Consolidated dashboards -- Summary -- 7. Building Intelligent Processes with Insight-driven Agility -- Business Intelligence meets Service-Oriented Architecture -- Business patterns and architecture for combining BI with SOA -- Actionable business insight -- Insight-driven process -- Context-aware decisions -- Technology requirements for combining BI and SOA -- Building insight, actions, and context into processes -- Business Scenario: Insightful processes for vehicle remarketing at Motability Operations -- Syndication process and rule change based on business insight into sales channel and market performance -- Solution architecture for vehicle remarketing -- Solution benefits for Motability Operations -- Summary -- 8. Building Enterprise 2.0 Applications -- Building blocks of Enterprise 2.0 -- Enterprise 2.0 integration -- Integrating content management with the Web 2.0 layer -- Enabling authentication for the content management and Web 2.0 layers -- Integrating the Web 2.0 layer with Enterprise applications using SOA -- Wind River's Enterprise 2.0 approach to online customer support.

Content management -- Web 2.0 -- Security -- WebCenter security model -- UCM security model -- Integration -- Summary -- 9. Automating Enterprise Reporting with WebCenter, SOA, and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher -- Automated reporting platform architecture -- Property Management Reporting Solution at Arcturus -- ClientConnect solution -- Step 1: The ESB captures reporting data from JD Edwards and kicks off the BPEL process -- Step 2: BPEL process starts report compilation process -- Step 3: BPEL invokes Oracle BI Publisher to generate reports -- Step 4: Arcturus Portal delivers reports to property managers -- Summary -- 10. A Role-based Approach to Automated Provisioning and a Personalized Portal -- Reference architecture -- Rocky road: A trucking company's outdated infrastructure -- Schneider's solution using Oracle Identity Management and Oracle WebCenter -- Integrating OIM with the E-Business Suite HRMS -- Integrating OIM with ORM -- Integrating WebCenter Spaces with Identity Management -- Summary -- Index.