The Oracle Service Bus 11g (OSB) is a scalable SOA integration platform that delivers an efficient, standards-based infrastructure for high-volume, mission critical SOA environments. It is designed to connect, mediate, and manage interactions between heterogeneous services, legacy applications, packaged applications, and multiple Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) implementations (such as other OSB instances, Microsoft BizTalk, IBM WebsSphere ESB, SAP-XI, ...and so on) across an enterprise-wide service network. Oracle Service Bus is a core component of the Oracle SOA Suite.
This practical cookbook shows you how to develop service- and message-oriented (integration) solutions on the Oracle Service Bus 11g.
This practical cookbook shows you how to develop service- and message-oriented (integration) solutions on the Oracle Service Bus 11g.The book contains more than 80 practical recipes, showing how to efficiently develop on the Oracle Service Bus. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, the explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for everyone who has experience with the OSB and wants to improve. Most of the recipes are designed in such a way that each one is presented as a separate, standalone entity and reading of prior recipes is not required. The finished solution of each recipe is also made available electronically.
Chapter 1, Creating a Basic OSB Service, teaches how to structure a project through the Eclipse OSB plugin, what conventions and best practices to apply, and how to use proxy and business service to create a simple message flow on the Oracle Service Bus. We will also learn how to test an OSB service through the Service Bus console and through soapUI.
Chapter 2, Working Efficiently with OSB Artifacts in Eclipse OEPE, presents some tips and tricks for simplifying working in Eclipse with the OSB Plugin. We will also learn how to use the visual debugger for step-by-step debugging of OSB services.
Chapter 3, Messaging with JMS Transport, shows how to use the JMS transport for sending and receiving message through JMS queues and topics. Additionally this chapter also shows how to use other tools such as soapUI and QBrowser to support the testing of JMS applications.
Chapter 4, Using EJB and JEJB Transport, teaches us how to use the EJB and JEJB transport for integrating and exposing EJB session beans.
Chapter 5, Using HTTP Transport, presents how to use the HTTP transport for implementing RESTful web services and how to implement a custom transport which uses WebSockets to implement server-side push messaging.
Chapter 6, Using File and Email Transports, shows how to use the File and FTP transport for reading and writing files and how to use the Email transport for receiving and sending emails from an OSB service.
Chapter 7, Communicating with the Database, shows with different recipes how the DB adapter can be used to integrate an OSB service with a relational database, and how the AQ adapter can be used to implement messaging between OSB and an Oracle database.
Chapter 8, Communicating with SOA Suite, teaches us how to use the SOA direct transport to natively communicate between SOA Suite service components and OSB services.
Chapter 9, Communication, Flow Control, and Message Processing, presents how to use different actions from the Communication, Flow Control, and Message Processing section of the OSB Design Palette.
Chapter 10, Reliable Communication with the OSB, contains recipes that will show how to use the various features of the OSB and WebLogic JMS to implement reliable message processing.
Chapter 11, Handling Message-level Security Requirements, shows different options for securing OSB services on the message-level to guarantee end-to-end security between an initial sender and an ultimate receiver.
Chapter 12, Handling Transport-level Security Requirements, contains recipes for securing OSB services on the transport protocol level.