Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 - A Hands-On Tutorial [Paperback]

Heidi Buelow (Author), Manas Deb (Author), Jayaram Kasi (Author), Demed L'Her (Author), Prasen Palvankar (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 19, 2009

This fully illustrated step-by-step tutorial is based on proven training material that has been highly praised by hundreds of developers in product training courses given as part of the SOA Suite 11g rollout. You will learn how to build a services-oriented composite application project iteratively with each chapter introducing new technology components and adding a functional increment. Each chapter comes with a working solution for your reference. You can use the solution to start the tutorial at any point or to jump around to the chapters that most interest you. This clear and detailed tutorial is perfect for both new and experienced SOA developers looking for a pragmatic and hands-on approach to learning Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

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About the Author

Heidi Buelow

Heidi Buelow is a product manager with Oracle and is responsible for Oracle SOA Suite programs such as beta and technical previews. Heidi joined Oracle in 2006, after having spent the previous 10 years as Chief Application Architect with a startup developing a Business Process Management engine, developer toolset, and application framework. Heidi started her career as a software developer at Xerox, working on the Xerox Network Services and Star Workstation products where she first learned to appreciate object-oriented and services-oriented technologies. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

Manas Deb

Manas Deb is a senior director in the Fusion Middleware/SOA, BPM, Governance Suites Product Group at Oracle HQ. He currently leads outbound product management and many strategic engagement initiatives for Oracle's SOA, BPM, and Governance solutions, worldwide. He is also responsible for Oracle/HQ-based SOA Methodology initiatives. Manas has worked in the software industry for over twenty years, most of which was spent in software product management/marketing and on architecting; he has also led a wide variety of enterprise-level application development and business integration projects in a wide variety of industries. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (KGP), Manas attended post-graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD in an inter-disciplinary program comprising Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, and Engineering. Manas also has an MBA with specialization in international business.

Jayaram Kasi

Jayaram Kasi is a product manager with Oracle, and focuses on SOA technologies. Before that, he had been a software architect for 20 years working on relational database kernels at HP, OLTP monitors based on DCE at HP, High Availability at HP, ECommerce Infrastructure at Commerce One, and Enterprise Service Bus at BEA. Jayaram has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Hawaii.

Demed L'Her

Demed L'Her is Director of Product Management at Oracle, where he is responsible for the Oracle SOA Suite. He has been with Oracle since 2006, focusing on ESB, JMS, and next-generation SOA platforms. Before joining Oracle, Demed spent eight years with TIBCO Software, a pioneer in electronic trading, message-oriented middleware, and enterprise integration. He has been involved in some of the largest messaging and integration projects around the world, from trading floors in Tokyo to semiconductor manufacturing fabs in Arizona. Demed holds an Engineering Degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Université de Bretagne Occidentale and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Université de Rennes I.

Prasen Palvankar

Prasen Palvankar is a Director of Product Management at Oracle and is responsible for providing strategic support to Oracle's SOA Suite current and prospective customers. He is also responsible for outbound SOA Suite product-related activities, including field and partner enablement and training. Prasen has over 20 years of experience in software development and has been working for Oracle since 1998. He was a Technical Director in the Advanced Technology Solutions group at Oracle Consulting, delivering large-scale integration projects before taking on his current role four years ago. Before joining Oracle, Prasen worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 19, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184719978X
• ISBN-13: 978-1847199782
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Conceptual book only., October 27, 2010

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This review is from: Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 - A Hands-On Tutorial (Paperback)

A brief background on my credentials - I'm with Interway , a company that provides software products to companies to help with their SOA needs (among other things).

Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 - A Hands-On Tutorial ([...]) is about SOA Suite 11gR1 and all it's components.

In July 2009 Oracle has announced release of new product line Oracle Fusion Middleware 11gR1. Main SOA oriented software of this release is Oracle SOA Suite. In this book, there are all components of Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.2.0 release conceptually explained.

Authors of publication were part of Oracle SOA Suite 11g design team and took part also in development team. They brought interesting perspective to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in conjunction with Service Composite Architecture (SCA). SCA as technology and vendor neutral standard model has to conform to SOA principles and paradigms.

Book gives to reader best value if reader has experienced with concepts used in SOA Suite 10g. While reading this book, reader will get familiar with new concepts and possibilities of usage SOA Suite 11g which is using SCA model.

Release 11g has gone through many conceptual changes comparing to product line 10g. As application server is in use WebLogic and not OC4J, which was used in 10g. Due to this fact there is lack of description about WebLogic itself. WebLogic architecture and installation is explained only as part of installation of SOA Suite. The user, which is trying to install and use SOA suite deployed in WebLogic, has not enough information for usage and WebLogic configuration. On the other hand, there is well-detailed described SCA model. In beginning of the book there is mentioned motivation for SCA and SOA. How SCA is conforming to SOA principles. Authors have used definition and quotations from "bible" of SOA: "Principles of Service Design" from Thomas Erl.

Book contains installation guides for developer and test environment. There is missing any conceptual information about installation and configuration of SOA Suite in production environment and in high availability mode. It should be there; at least in form of architectural concepts and recommendation as such installation and configuration is most required in enterprise (mission critical) environment. After installation guide follows well-explained installation of developer IDE - JDeveloper. Only as optional step is mentioned "parallel" product with SCA mediator - Oracle Service Bus (OSB). It is product, which was developed by company BEA. All products of BEA (including WebLogic) were brought to Oracle portfolios by acquisition prior release Fusion Middleware 11g. Installation information regarding developer IDE for OSB - Eclipse is not mentioned in book at all.

Following chapter in book familliarize us with JDeveloper IDE. Topic as setting the SOA project, creating, deloying SOA compozite aplications will appreciate starting developers in Oracle SOA field. Users already experienced with this from 10g line will be already familiar with those concepts. Next, there are explained components of SOA Suite as Mediator, File Adapter, JMS Adapter, WS Adapter, BPEL, Human Task and Business Rules. The mentioned example's URL in book is invalid. If user will try to search for those examples will have to spend some time on Oracle OTN pages, as URL reference is invalid. Active reader of the book has possibility to follow each chapter and create/develop SOA project in his JDeveloper IDE. However all this topic are complex and authors focus to conceptual explanation of functionality, the reader will probably have implementation difficulties with those examples and will need to look for more necessary information out of scope the book in order to successfully build and deploy those examples.

It is very positive, that authors mentioned also life cycles aspect of SOA service composites. You will find some life cycle scenarios about design phase, development phase, testing phase and deployment phase. Some deployment ant scripts are shown in order to get familiar with ant technology, which is using JDeveloper and automated, continues integration. Also some test unit as part of test framework available in JDeveloper is shown.

OSB example shows how to create OSB system in OSB console. As already mentioned OSB IDE is not part of this book. This is only as optional step and quick look into OSB.

More advanced topic follows as: SCA Error Handling, Securing WS using policies and WebLogic OWSM, setting BAM and BPEL for monitoring business metrics, event driven approach firstly introduced in 11g - EDN, SDO and B2B support in 11g.

Especially last advanced topics are mentioned from high-level perspective. Reader will know concept about that and will have opportunity to understand principle of approach and functionality. By scope it is not possible to cover more detailed explanation of those topic in this book.

I suggest this book to readers, who needs efficiently get acquainted with SOA Suite 11g (11.1.1.1.2.0) and new concepts as SDO, EDN, OSB, and B2B. In case if reader expects that after reading this book and exercising with samples in book will become SOA 11g developer, then this expectation is wrong and starting with this book reader/developer is on beginning with work/studying with advanced and new topics brought to SOA Suite 11g as part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11gR1.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The perfect tool to kick the tires on SOA Suite 11g, October 15, 2009

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Clemens Utschig (San Francisco, CA; USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 - A Hands-On Tutorial (Paperback)

With this edited tutorial covering all the parts of SOA Suite 11g (from BPEL, via Mediator, Rules, as well as Human Workflow - all the way to B2B and Oracle's Service Bus) it's by far the best way to get a head start into the fundamentals of the platform at unprecedented breath.

Heidi and her team have done a tremendous job to structure the labs and hands-on exercises in a didactic, explanatory way - with solutions all the way through. This way the book serves not just as a tutorial, but also as a reference bible when it comes to implementation of specific features and concepts.

Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Platform Architect, SOA Suite

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended for both experienced and new beginners - Oracle SOA Suite 11g!, June 1, 2010

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Sazi Temel (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 - A Hands-On Tutorial (Paperback)

An excellent book to learn Oracle SOA Suite 11g, including the latest version of the products. The book walks you through creating composite applications covering BPEL, Mediator, BAM, EM, WF and Rules components via building non-trivial samples in a very intuitive way by clearly defined steps - for this alone, this books deserves 5 stars! However it goes beyond, it also includes topics such as Web Services, JMS, Database, LDAP Adapters, Error Handling, Event Networks, and Unit Testing in a way to support SOA concepts and SOA Suite 11g. By the time you finished the book, completed the samples/tutorials, you are at a pretty good level of understanding of SOA and SOA Suite and hands on experience to take to next level... I highly recommend this book to both 10g experienced (a lot of new features and updates in 11g!) and new beginners.