Oracle SOA Suite 11g: Build Composite Applications SOAS-11g-BLD

Audience:

• Application Developers
• Business Analysts
• Developer
• SOA Architect
• Technical Consultant

Prerequisites:

• Conceptual knowledge about XML, XML Schema, XSL Transformations and XPath.
• Oracle ADF basic concepts
• Some basic SQL query skills
• Knowledge of Web Services and Web Service standards specifically SOAP and WSDL

Objectives:

• Describe SOA concepts and related technology
• Create an SOA Composite application using JDeveloper
• Work with Mediator components with routing rules, filters, and transformations
• Orchestrate business process flows by using BPEL
• Implement Business Rule component with IF-THEN rules and decision tables
• Implement Human workflow with Human Task components
• Perform basic administration and monitoring tasks of SOA Composite applications
• Test, debug, and troubleshoot an SOA Composite application
• Interact with an ADF Business Component Service as an Service Data Object (SDO)
• Initiate SOA Composite applications using the Events Delivery Network
• Integrate services by using Oracle Service Bus
• Apply security policies to service endpoints to secure interactions

Topics:

Overview of SOA and SCA Concepts

• Describing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Reviewing of Services and key standards
• Explaining Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Object (SDO)
• Describing Event Driven Architecture (EDA)
• Discussing the course application and environment

Designing Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g

• Explaining the Oracle SOA Suite 11g architecture and components
• Implementing an SOA application design approach
• Describing basic synchronous and asynchronous interaction patterns
• Discussing the course application implementation with Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Creating a Composite Application

• Creating, editing, and deploying a composite application
• Creating composite service entry points
• Creating composite components, such as Mediator, BPEL, Human Task, and Business Rule components
• Creating service references
• Wiring composite constructs
• Testing a composite using Web based interfaces
• Introducing working with adapters
• Create a file adapter service reference

Managing and Monitoring a Composite Application

• Managing SOA composite application by using Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Tracking messages through SOA composite application by using Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Deploying a composite application
• Un-deploying a composite application
• Moving a composite application to a production environment

Creating Adapter Services

• Introducing the adapter framework
• Identifying types of adapters
• Invoking a File adapter to read a file
• Implement a Database adapter to query database data
• Working with the JMS adapter

Working with Mediator Components

• Explaining the Service Infrastructure
• Creating a Mediator component
• Defining a Routing Service
• Adding Routing Rules
• Creating XSL Transformations with the XSLT Mapper
• Creating content-based routing filters
• Exploring Domain-Value Maps and cross references

Developing a Simple BPEL Component

• Creating BPEL components
• Describing the Types BPEL Process Structure
• Structuring a BPEL Process with Scope activities
• Choosing global or local variables
• Creating an Assign activity
• Defining copy operations for the Assign activity
• Creating and configuring a Transform activity

Orchestrating Services with BPEL

• Describing conditions for business process orchestration
• Providing and accessing services from BPEL
• Importing XML schemas and setting message types
• Creating and configuring a Partner Link
• Invoking a service synchronously and asynchronously
• Describing WS-Addressing and correlation concepts
• Performing conditional branching by using a Switch activity
• Adding and configuring cases for conditional branching

Implementing Coordination and Interaction Patterns

• Implementing parallel processing by using a Flow activity
• Adding and configuring Flow activity branches
• Exploring request-response interaction patterns
• Implementing a Pick activity with messages and alarm branches
• Creating an execution loop with a While activity
• Suspending a BPEL process with a Wait activity

Handling Exceptions in Composite Applications

• Describing basic error handling and propagation in SOA Composites
• Describing the SOA fault management framework
• Creating a WSDL fault and message for a synchronous service
• Creating messages for asynchronous faults
• Throwing faults in a BPEL process
• Catching faults in a BPEL process

Managing Transactions with Services

• Describing transactions with services
• Managing transactions with the Database adapter
• Describing and accessing Service Data Objects with Entity Variables
• Managing transactions with SDOs
• Understanding compensation handling within a BPEL process

Implementing Human Task Services

• Describing Human Task Concepts
• Designing a Human Task
• Invoking a Human Task from a BPEL process
• Generating ADF Task Forms for Human Tasks
• Adding E-mail Notification to a BPEL process

Developing Business Rules

• Explaining business rules concepts
• Describing the Oracle Business Rules architecture
• Creating rules and decision tables by using Oracle JDeveloper Rule Editor
• Integrating a simple rule with a BPEL process
• Describing the role of the Rules SDK

Testing and Debugging Composite Applications

• Creating test suites for composite applications
• Testing initiation of inbound messages, emulating outbound, fault, and callback messages
• Creating test cases with value-based and XML-based assertions
• Evaluating techniques and tool for debugging applications

Securing Services and Composite Applications

• Explaining security for services
• Describing the Fusion Middleware security architecture
• Attaching security policies at design time in JDeveloper
• Attaching security policies post-deployment in Enterprise Manager
• Discussing security propagation between applications and an SOA Composite

Designing and Managing Business Events

• Describing the Event Delivery Network
• Explaining the Event Delivery Network Configuration Types
• Describing Event Definition Language (EDL)
• Creating a business event
• Publishing an event
• Subscribing to an event
• Managing events in Oracle Enterprise Manager

Monitoring Composite Applications with Sensors and Oracle BAM

• Creating and configuring BPEL sensors
• Creating and configuring Composite sensors
• Viewing Sensor information in Enterprise Manager
• Publishing Sensors to Oracle BAM
• Viewing BPEL sensor information in a BAM Dashboard
• Introducing Oracle Complex Event Processing (CEP)