Oracle SOA Suite 11g: Build Composite Applications - Self-Study Course

This course covers designing and developing SOA composite applications for application integration with services by using a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation approach.

Composite applications are modeled and developed according to the Service Component Architecture (SCA) specifications. Oracle JDeveloper 11g is used to design, develop and deploy applications to an Oracle SOA Suite 11g run-time environment, in which the composite applications are executed.

With the Oracle JDeveloper 11g Integrated Development Environment (IDE), participants learn how to design, develop, deploy, and test SOA Composite applications comprised of Mediator, BPEL, Business Rules, Human Tasks (Workflow) components. They also learn the usage of these components in depth that is sufficient to implement a reasonably complex business solution, based on a purchase order processing scenario.

Learn to:

• 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
• Apply security policies to service endpoints
• Perform basic administration and monitoring tasks of SOA composite applications
• Create an SOA Composite application using JDeveloper

Audience

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

Course 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)

Integrating Service with Oracle Service Bus (OSB)

• Describing the Oracle Service Bus (OSB) Architecture
• Defining Business Services
• Defining Proxy Services
• Comparing OSB and Mediator Components

Course 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