Oracle SOA Suite 10g: SOA Essentials

What you will learn:

Audience:

• Business Analysts
• Sales Consultants
• Technical Consultant
• SOA Architect
• Application Developers
• J2EE Developer

Prerequisites:

Required Prerequisites:

• XML, XML Schema, XPath, and XSLT, Web Service basics, such as WSDL and SOAP

Suggested Prerequisites:

• Equivalent knowledge from http://www.w3schools.com
• Oracle 10g: XML Fundamentals

Course Objectives:

• Explain the basic concepts of Service Oriented Architectures and related technology
• Develop a Java Web service
• Modify a BPEL process to invoke a Web service
• Deploy and execute an BPEL Process to Oracle SOA Suite 10g
• Manage and monitor an BPEL Process
• Configure Oracle ESB services
• Define Oracle Rules and observe their behavior
• Secure a BPEL process and services

Course Topics:

Introducing the Course and SOA Concepts

• Service-Oriented Architecture
• Services
• Defining Web Services
• Describing Composite Applications
• Identifying Standards that enable SOA
• Examining the Life Cycle SOA Applications
• Describing the Course Environment
• Describing the Course Practice Scenario

Introducing Oracle SOA Suite 10g

• Describing Oracle ESB Architecture
• Describing Oracle BPEL Process Manager Architecture
• Describing Oracle Business Rules and Decision Services
• Describing Oracle Web Services Manager
• Describing Oracle Service Registry
• Describing Oracle Service Registry
• Describing Oracle Application Server
• Monitoring Business Activity with Oracle BAM

Creating Web Services with Oracle SOA Suite 10g

• Introducing the Web Services Architecture
• Describing Web Service Standards
• What is SOAP?
• What is WSDL?
• What is UDDI?
• Implementing Web Services in Oracle Application Server
• Developing Web Services using Oracle JDeveloper
• Designing a Web Service using a top-down and bottom-up approach

Configuring an Enterprise Service Bus

• Introducing ESB Architecture and Components
• ESB Adapter Framework
• Exploring Adapters Available in Oracle ESB
• Managing Transactions with ESB Adapters
• Working with the ESB Designer
• Transforming Messages in Oracle ESB
• Accessing the ESB Control

Orchestrating Services with BPEL

• Describing Process Orchestration Concepts
• Introducing Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
• Developing a BPEL Process in JDeveloper
• Creating a Synchronous BPEL Process Project
• Invoking a Synchronous Service with BPEL
• Exploring Process Orchestration with BPEL Activities
• Implementing Human Workflow Services
• Deploying and testing a BPEL Process

Implementing Decision Services with Rules

• Introducing Decision Service Concepts
• Describing Oracle Rules Architecture and Components
• Accessing Oracle Rule Author
• Creating a Rule Repository
• Creating Business Rules with the Rule Author
• Creating a Rule Set and a Rule
• Implementing Rules with a BPEL Process
• Rules SDK

Integrating Services Through Adapters

• Defining Adapter Services
• Describing the Adapter Framework
• Types of Adapters
• Creating a PartnerLink for an Adapter in BPEL
• Invoking the service of a BPEL adapter
• Virtualising Services through ESB Adapters
• Deciding to use BPEL or ESB Adapters
• Designing Routing Patterns

Transforming Message Data in ESB and BPEL

• Creating Transformation activity in a BPEL Process
• Creating Transformation Mapping by using the XSLT Mapper
• Saving a XSLT Transformation
• Applying a Transformation to XML data
• Creating a Domain Value Map in BPEL and in ESB
• Applying a Transformation in ESB
• Applying Domain Value Map to a Transformation in ESB
• Contrasting Transformation in ESB and BPEL

Securing Services with Oracle Web Services Manager

• WS-Security
• Identifying Oracle Web Service Manager Components and Architecture
• Registering a Gateway and an Agent
• Managing Security Policies
• Creating Policy for a Gateway
• Creating Policy for an Agent
• Applying a Security Policy
• Testing and Monitoring the Policy Usage