Oracle SOA Suite 10g: Services Orchestration

What you will learn:

Audience:

• Java Developer
• SOA Architect
• Business Analysts
• Technical Consultant

Prerequisites:

Suggested Prerequisites:

• XML standards such as XML syntax, XML Schema, XSL, XPath
• Web Service standards such as WSDL and SOAP concepts
• Oracle 10g: XML Fundamentals
• OracleAS 10g R3: Build Web Services

Course Objectives:

• Explain the SOA concepts and terminology as related to integration technology
• Develop and deploy BPEL processes to an Oracle SOA Suite 10g environment. This includes developing a BPEL process to invoke synchronous and asynchronous business services
• Design and integrate services by using Oracle ESB to move and transform message data between service end points
• Define business rules by using Rule Author of Oracle Business Rules, and implement the business rules in a BPEL process through a decision service
• Secure message contents and exchanges between service endpoints by using Oracle Web Services Manager
• Monitor Oracle SOA Suite 10g components by using Oracle Application Server Control, Oracle BPEL Control, Oracle ESB Control, and Oracle Web Services Manager Control

Course Topics:

Introducing SOA Concepts and Design Principles

• Why Service-Oriented Architectures?
• Creating a Service Portfolio
• Standards enabling SOA
• Identifying elements of an SOA design approach
• Introduction to SOA Governance

Implementing Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 10g

• Overview of Oracle SOA Suite
• Describing the course environment
• Describing the OrderBooking practice scenario
• Implementing OrderBooking with Oracle SOA Suite

Integrating Systems as Services through Adapters

• Introducing Adapter Services
• Describing the Adapter Framework
• Identifying OracleAS Adapter Types
• Describing Technology Adapters
• Application and Legacy Adapters
• Implementing Adapters Services in an ESB Project
• Implementing Adapters Services in an BPEL Project

Configuring Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

• ESB as a Foundation for SOA-based Services
• Describing the Benefits of ESB
• Integrating Services through the ESB
• Working with the Oracle ESB Designer
• Defining Routing Services and Routing Rules
• Testing a Service Exposed through the ESB
• Creating and using a Domain Value Map
• Describing common ESB Interaction Patterns

Developing a Simple BPEL Process

• Describing Oracle BPEL Process Designer
• Creating a BPEL Process Project
• Building expressions with the XPath Expression Builder
• Deploying the BPEL Process
• Working with the Oracle BPEL Control
• Describing Scopes, global, and local BPEL variables

Orchestrating Services with BPEL

• Assigning message types to BPEL Process variables
• Invoking a synchronous service
• Invoking an asynchronous service
• Describing WS-Addressing and Correlation
• Implementing Conditional Branching

Processing BPEL Activities in Parallel

• Processing in parallel with the Flow Activity
• Adding a While Activity for execution loops
• Suspending a process with a Wait activity
• Implementing a Pick Activity
• Defining BPEL Deployment Descriptor Properties
• Obtaining property values in BPEL
• Updating property values at runtime

Handling Exceptions in ESB and BPEL

• Exception management in ESB
• Identify, locate, and handle errors in ESB
• Configuring notification channels in ESB
• Using trackable fields in ESB
• Reporting faults in a synchronous BPEL processes
• Reporting faults in an asynchronous BPEL processes
• Implementing fault handling in a BPEL Process
• Configuring a Catch and CatchAll branches

Managing Transformations and Transactions in BPEL

• Add a Transform Activity to BPEL process
• Configuring a Transform Activity
• Understanding database transaction management issues
• Executing transactional services from ESB and BPEL
• Managing transactions with the Database Adapter
• Compensation handling within a BPEL process

Monitoring and Logging ESB and BPEL Components

• Incorporate sensors within a BPEL process
• Monitor BPEL Processes and Sensor Information by Using the BPEL Control
• Working for Oracle SOA Suite log files

Developing Business Rules

• Explain business rules concepts
• Describe the Oracle Business Rules architecture
• Explain the role of the Rule Repository
• Describe Oracle Rules Engine
• Create a simple rule with Oracle Rule Author
• Integrate a simple rule with a BPEL process
• Describe the role of the Rules SDK

Implementing Human Workflow in BPEL

• Human workflow management concepts
• Implementing human workflow services in BPEL with a Human Task
• Managing task assignments in the Worklist application
• Generating a Task Form to display task information
• Implementing an e-mail notification service in BPEL

Configuring the Oracle WSM Components

• Implementing WS-Security Policies
• Defining a Policy Enforcement Point
• Configuring a Gateway and Agent
• Defining a Security Policy by using Oracle WSM
• Creating a Policy for a Gateway and Agent
• Registering a Policy with a Gateway and Agent
• Managing Security Policies
• Defining Oracle WSM Management Roles

Securing BPEL and ESB Services with Oracle WSM

• Creating and configuring a client agent to invoke a secured Web service from BPEL
• Securing a BPEL Process
• Enabling the BPEL process to pass Authentication Details to the Web service
• Managing Security of ESB Services

Monitoring and Reporting with Oracle WSM

• Monitoring Web Services
• Operating the Oracle WSM Monitor
• Monitoring Web Service Performance
• Creating Alarm Rules and Viewing Alarm Events

Appendix: Installing Oracle SOA Suite 10g

• Preparing an Oracle Database 10g for Oracle SOA Suite 10g
• Installing Oracle SOA Suite 10g
• Configuring Java Single Sign-On

Appendix: Designing Transformations with the XSLT Mapper

• Mapping elements in an XSL Transformation
• Specifying a dictionary for mapping elements
• Testing XSL Transformations

Appendix: Integrating Java Applications and BPEL

• Writing a Java application to invoke a BPEL process
• Sending request data to a BPEL process
• Obtaining response data from a BPEL process

Appendix: Integrating with Legacy Systems through Adapters

• Describing Oracle Applications Adapter concepts
• Configuring the run-time connections for the Oracle Application Adapter
• Configuring the design-time connection for the Oracle Application Adapter
• Creating and configuring Oracle Applications Adapter service
• Designing BPEL activities to invoke the Oracle Applications Adapter

Appendix: Exploring Interaction Patterns

• Describing various BPEL interaction patterns
• Differentiating synchronous and asynchronous interaction patterns

Appendix: Web Services for SOA

• Defining a service
• Describing key service artifacts
• Creating, deploying, and testing a Java Web service
• Consuming a Web service by using Oracle JDeveloper