Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

1 Introduction

• 1.1 Service-Oriented IT Trends
  • 1.1.1 Service-Oriented Architecture
    • 1.1.1.1 Composite Applications and Service Layering
  • 1.1.2 Service Bus Component of SOA
• 1.2 Oracle Product Suite
• 1.3 Oracle Service Bus
  • 1.3.1 Significance in an SOA Landscape
    • 1.3.1.1 Oracle Service Bus Use Cases
  • 1.3.2 Oracle Service Bus and the Service Lifecycle
    • 1.3.2.1 Role of Oracle Service Bus in a Service Cycle
  • 1.3.3 Functional Features and Benefits
    • 1.3.3.1 Adaptive Service Messaging Layer
    • 1.3.3.2 Optimized Pluggable Security Layer
    • 1.3.3.3 Rich Service Composition Layer
    • 1.3.3.4 Embedded Service Management Layer
    • 1.3.3.5 Feature Benefits
  • 1.3.4 Related Topics

2 Oracle Service Bus Architecture

• 2.1 Architecture Overview
• 2.2 Key Architecture Concepts
  • 2.2.1 Message Processing
    • 2.2.1.1 Binding Layer
    • 2.2.1.2 Transport Layer (Inbound)
    • 2.2.1.3 Transport Layer (Outbound)
  • 2.2.2 Proxy Services
    • 2.2.2.1 Message Context
  • 2.2.3 Message-Flow Definitions
• 2.3 Oracle Service Bus Core Features
  • 2.3.1 Service Integration
    • 2.3.1.1 Communication Types
    • 2.3.1.2 Message Brokering
    • 2.3.1.3 Conditional Routing
    • 2.3.1.4 Message Transformation
    • 2.3.1.5 Service Callouts
    • 2.3.1.6 Database Lookup from Proxy Services
    • 2.3.1.7 Native Transport for Oracle Data Service Integrator
    • 2.3.1.8 Data Transformation Tools
    • 2.3.1.9 Interoperability
    • 2.3.1.10 EJB and JEJB Transports
  • 2.3.2 Service Security
    • 2.3.2.1 Message Security Features
  • 2.3.3 Service Composition
    • 2.3.3.1 Change Center
    • 2.3.3.2 Test Console
    • 2.3.3.3 Resource Management
    • 2.3.3.4 Resource Customization
    • 2.3.3.5 UDDI Service Registry
    • 2.3.3.6 Error Handling
  • 2.3.4 Service Management
    • 2.3.4.1 Service Logging and Monitoring
    • 2.3.4.2 Custom Operations Console
    • 2.3.4.3 Service Versioning
    • 2.3.4.4 Service Level Agreements
• 2.4 Oracle Service Bus Deployment
  • 2.4.1 Deployment Topology
  • 2.4.2 Distributed Configurations for Large-Scale Deployments
  • 2.4.3 Development, Staging, and Production Domains
  • 2.4.4 Configuration Metadata Export and Import
    • 2.4.4.1 Metadata Export
    • 2.4.4.2 Metadata Import
  • 2.4.5 Scripting Support
  • 2.4.6 Related Topics

3 Service Integration

• 3.1 Message Brokering
  • 3.1.1 Services
  • 3.1.2 Service Types
  • 3.1.3 Transport Protocols
  • 3.1.4 Service Interfaces
  • 3.1.5 Messaging Models
  • 3.1.6 Message Formats
  • 3.1.7 Message Context
  • 3.1.8 Content Types
• 3.2 Oracle Service Bus Resources
  • 3.2.1 Schemas and Data Types
    • 3.2.1.1 Type System
  • 3.2.2 Transformation Maps
  • 3.2.3 JARs
  • 3.2.4 WSDLs
  • 3.2.5 Proxy Services
  • 3.2.6 Service Key Providers
  • 3.2.7 Alert Destinations
  • 3.2.8 JNDI Providers
  • 3.2.9 SMTP Servers
  • 3.2.10 JCA Bindings
• 3.3 Oracle Service Bus Security
  • 3.3.1 Oracle Web Services Manager
  • 3.3.2 WS-Policies
  • 3.3.3 Service Accounts
  • 3.3.4 Security Levels
    • 3.3.4.1 Inbound Security
    • 3.3.4.2 Outbound Security
    • 3.3.4.3 Options for Identity Propagation
    • 3.3.4.4 User Management
    • 3.3.4.5 Administrative Security
    • 3.3.4.6 Transport-Level Security
    • 3.3.4.7 Message-Level Security
  • 3.3.5 Custom Security Credentials
  • 3.3.6 Related Topics

4 Service Configuration

• 4.1 Resource Organization
  • 4.1.1 Project Explorer
  • 4.1.2 Projects and Folders
  • 4.1.3 Resource Cache
• 4.2 Change Management
  • 4.2.1 Change Center
  • 4.2.2 Sessions
  • 4.2.3 Concurrent Modifications
  • 4.2.4 Tracking Configuration Changes
  • 4.2.5 Tracking Dependencies
  • 4.2.6 Semantic Integrity
  • 4.2.7 Reversing Changes to Resources and Sessions
    • 4.2.7.1 Undoing Modifications to Resources
    • 4.2.7.2 Undoing Session Activations
• 4.3 Service Discovery
  • 4.3.1 UDDI Registry
  • 4.3.2 Advantages of a UDDI Registry
    • 4.3.2.1 Publishing a Proxy Service to a UDDI Registry
    • 4.3.2.2 Importing a Service from a UDDI Registry
    • 4.3.2.3 Auto-Synchronization of Services With UDDI
  • 4.3.3 Related Topics

5 Service Composition

• 5.1 Dynamic Content-Based Routing
  • 5.1.1 Business Services and Proxy Services
    • 5.1.1.1 Proxy Services
    • 5.1.1.2 Business Services
    • 5.1.1.3 Proxy Templates
• 5.2 Message Flow Modeling
  • 5.2.1 Message Pipelines
    • 5.2.1.1 Operational Pipelines
    • 5.2.1.2 Branch Nodes
    • 5.2.1.3 Route Nodes
    • 5.2.1.4 Pipeline Pairs
    • 5.2.1.5 Pipeline Execution Stages and Actions
    • 5.2.1.6 Operational Branching
    • 5.2.1.7 Service Callouts
• 5.3 Transformations
  • 5.3.1 Transformation Maps
  • 5.3.2 Message Manipulation
• 5.4 Error Handling
  • 5.4.1 Message Validation
    • 5.4.1.1 Error Handling Pipeline
  • 5.4.2 Related Topics

6 Service Management

• 6.1 Service Monitoring
  • 6.1.1 Dashboard
  • 6.1.2 Metric Aggregation
  • 6.1.3 SLA Enforcement via Alerts
• 6.2 Message Reporting