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The Definitive Guide to SOA: Oracle® Service Bus, SECOND EDITION

by Jeff Davies, David Schorow, Samrat Ray, David Rieber

September 2008

Intermediate to advanced

536 pages

15h 36m

English

Apress

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About the Oracle Service BusWhat's New in OSB 10.3?Who This Book Is ForHow This Book Is StructuredDownloading the CodeContacting the Authors
The Problems We Face TodayEarly ESBsModern SolutionsEnter Oracle Service BusWon't This Lock Me into Oracle Technologies?Why Buy an Enterprise Service Bus?Summary
Installing the SoftwareUsing a Single WorkSpace Studio IDEConfiguring WorkSpace StudioSummary

Service MediationCreating and Deploying a Web ServiceSummary
Message Flow OverviewGoodbye World!Summary
Why Learn About WSDL?WSDL BasicsWSDL Best PracticesVisualizing Documents from SchemasSummary
Scenario 1: User Requests a Product CatalogScenario 2: User Orders a ProductSummary
Synchronous InvocationAsynchronous InvocationParallel Calls with Split-JoinSummary
Service Type and Transport Protocol OverviewSOAP with WSDLSOAP Without WSDLXML with WSDLXML Without WSDLMessaging Service TypesTransport-Typed ServicePOJOsSummary
Web Services Reliable MessagingService ThrottlingService PoolingSOAP with AttachmentsSummary
MonitoringReportingSummary
An Overview of SOA SecurityHow OSB Fits into an SOA Security ArchitectureOSB End-to-End Security ConfigurationPerformance Trade-Offs Using SecuritySummary
Core ConceptsAdvanced ConceptsArchitectural TransformationNot Just an ESB!Summary
Standards, Standards, and More StandardsWhere Do We Begin?The First ProjectThe Second ProjectSummary
What Is a Service?Service OrientationWhat Is Versioning?Do We Version Services or Operations?Constrained by RealityIf Not Versions, Then What?The Service Life CycleThe Future of ITSummary
Factors That Affect OSB PerformanceTuning an OSB InstanceBest Practices for OSB Proxy DesignXQuery and XPath OptimizationsScalability Considerations for an ESBHandling Large Messages with Content StreamingFlow-Control Patterns Using OSBSummary
DeploymentOSB Domains and ClustersSummary
Introduction to Custom TransportsThe Sample Socket TransportBuilding a Custom TransportAdvanced Custom Transport TopicsSummary
SecurityAdministrationMessaging and ProtocolsXML, XQuery, and XSLTMiscellaneousSummary

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CHAPTER 1Why Use a Service Bus?

Enterprise service buses (ESBs) are all the rage in modern software development. You can't pick up a trade magazine these days without some article on ESBs and how they make your life wonderful. If you're a software development veteran, you'll recognize the hype immediately. ESBs aren't going to be the magic answer for our industry any more than were XML, web services, application servers, or even ASCII. Each of the aforementioned technologies started life with a lot of fanfare and unrealistic expectations (the result of the inevitable ignorance we all have with any emerging technology), and each technology ended up becoming a reliable tool to solve a specific set of problems.

The same is true for the ESB. Putting ...