Articles: SOA

Service-Oriented Architecture Articles

(See also: Service-Oriented Architecture Topic)

Enterprise Service Bus [July 2013]
by Juergen Kress, Hajo Normann, Danilo Schmiedel, Guido Schmutz, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Torsten Winterberg, and Bernd Trops
Answers to some of the most important questions surrounding the use of an enterprise service bus, using concrete examples to clarify correct areas of application. Part of the Industrial SOA article series.

SOA Maturity [July 2013]
by Juergen Kress, Hajo Normann, Danilo Schmiedel, Guido Schmutz, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Torsten Winterberg, and Bernd Trops
This chapter in the Industrial SOA article series offers an exploration of the fundamentals of applying a factory approach to modern service-oriented software development.

Single Sign-On with Security Assertion Markup Language between Oracle and SAP [June 2013]
by Ronaldo Fernandes
Implementing Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to provide identity propagation from Oracle Web Service Manager (OWSM) in Oracle Service Bus (OSB) to SAP Enterprise Central Component (ECC).

Canonizing a Language for Architecture: An SOA Service Category Matrix [June 2013]
by Juergen Kress, Hajo Normann, Danilo Schmiedel, Guido Schmutz, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Torsten Winterberg, and Bernd Trops
Part of the Industrial SOA article series.

Fault Handling and Prevention for Services in Oracle Service Bus [May 2013]
by Guido Schmutz and Ronald van Luttikhuizen
Part two in a series, this article concentrates on concrete fault handling and prevention measures in the integration layer that are realized through Oracle Service Bus.

Industrial SOA [April 2013]
by Juergen Kress, Hajo Normann, Danilo Schmiedel, Guido Schmutz, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Torsten Winterberg, and Bernd Trops
The preface to a 14-part series on service oriented architecture written collaboratively by a group of recognized SOA experts and community leaders.

SOA Blueprint: A Toolbox for Architects [April 2013]
by Juergen Kress, Hajo Normann, Danilo Schmiedel, Guido Schmutz, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Torsten Winterberg, and Bernd Trops
This article outlines the architectural foundation upon which functional IT processes can be implemented and commercial, open source, and other modules added in order to enable and promote system and design advancements. Part of the Industrial SOA article series.

On the Integrity of Data [April 2013]
by Lucas Jellema
An introduction to the basics of data integrity enforcement in a variety of environments.

Moving to Oracle WebCenter Content 11g Web Services [April 2013]
by Jon McDonald
Working with the Generic and Native Web Services provided in Oracle WebCenter Content 11g.

Classification of Services [March 2013]
by Lonneke Dikmans and Ronald van Luttikhuizen
A sample chapter from SOA Made Simple, from Packt Publishing.

Working with Transactions [March 2013]
by Antony Reynolds and Matt Wright
A sample chapter from Oracle SOA Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook, from Packt Publishing

Fanning Out Events on the SOA Suite 11g Event Delivery Network [February 2013]
by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema
This article describes how events can be used in Oracle SOA Suite 11g to have business processes impact each other in a meaningful way with maximum decoupling.

Track Down a Memory Leak [January 2013]
by Dr. Frank Munz
This sample chapter from Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Distinctive Recipes offers a simple solution.

Fault Handling and Prevention - Part 1 [November 2012]
by Guido Schmutz and Ronald van Luttikhuizen
In this technical article, part one of a four part series, Oracle ACE Directors Guido Schmutz and Ronald van Luttikhuizen guide you through an introduction to fault handling in a service-oriented environment using Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Service Bus.

X.509 Certificate Revocation Checking Using OCSP protocol with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c [November 2012]
by Abhijit Patil
A technical guide to using X.509 Certificate Revocation Checking Functionality with the OCSP protocol to validate in-bound certificates.

Setting Up, Configuring, and Using an Oracle WebLogic Server Cluster [October 2012]
by Yuli Vasiliev
Yuli Vasiliev shows you how take advantage of multiple Oracle WebLogic Server instances grouped into a cluster to maximize scalability and availability.

Consume Early, Consume Often [September 2012]
by Frank Nimphius
How to service-enable Oracle ADF Business Components application modules for consumption by SOA and Web services clients.

Advanced Pub/Sub: Why Do We Need It? [August 2012]
SOA and Java architect Daniel Amadei explores the advanced publish and subscribe features in Oracle WebLogic Server.

SOA, Cloud, and Service Technologies [August 2012]
Best selling SOA author Thomas Erl and Oracle SOA experts Tim Hall and Demed L'Her explore the evolution of IT architecture and the emerging role of the IT architect in this edited transcript of an OTN ArchBeat podcast.

Scaling Service Oriented Architecture [August 2012]
Philip Wik explores what scaling is and what it means to a Service Oriented Architecture, and proposes Oracle-based solutions to SOA scaling and an Oracle-based SOA scaling roadmap.

Oracle WebLogic RESTful Management Services: From Command Line to JavaFX [August 2012]
by William Markito Oliveira
William Markito Oliviera offers code samples and scripts to illustrate the RESTful Management Services features in Oracle WebLogic Server 12c.

Storing SCA Metadata in the Oracle Metadata Services Repository [July 2012]
by Nicolás Fonnegra Martinez and Markus Lohn
The advantages of using the Oracle Metadata Services Repository as a central storage point for metadata.

Securing Heterogeneous Systems Using Oracle Web Services Manager [May 2012]
by Ronald van Luttikhuizen and Jens Peters
A case study on using use Oracle Web Services Manager to secure interactions between Web Services exposed by Oracle Service Bus and an employee portal built in Microsoft .NET and Silverlight.

Oracle Enterprise Gateway: Integration with Oracle Service Bus and Oracle Web Services Manager [March 2012]
by William Markito Oliveira and Fabio Mazanatti
Providing a secure environment for your Web Services

Three Recipes for Oracle Service Bus 11g [March 2012]
by Guido Schmutz, Edwin Biemond, Jan van Zoggel, Mischa Kölliker, and Eric Elzinga
Whip up a fresh batch of service- and message-oriented solutions with these recipes from the Oracle Service Bus 11g Development Cookbook.

Unit Testing Asynchronous BPEL Processes Using soapUI [February 2012]
by Daniel Amadei
Thanks to its support for Mocking and WS-Addressing, soapUI can be used to test asynchronous BPEL processes. Daniel Amadei shows you how.

Start Small, Grow Fast [January 2012]
by Edwin Biemond, Ronald van Luttikhuizen, and Demed L'Her
A set of pragmatic best practices for deploying a simple and sound SOA footprint that can grow with business demand.

Implementing the Enterprise Service Bus Pattern to Expose Database Backed Services [December 2011]
by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema
A real-world illustration of how to expose web services to internal consumers.

Lightweight Composite Service Development with SCA and Spring [October 2011]
by Berthold Maier and Nicolas Fonnegra
For software developers and software architects who implement and design service-oriented Spring applications.

Getting Started with Information Integration [September 2011]
by Jason Williamson, Tom Laszewski, and Prakash Nauduri
An excerpt from Oracle Information Integration, Migration, and Consolidation

Event-Driven SOA: Events Meet Services [July 2011]
by Oracle ACE Director Guido Schmutz

Caching Strategies for Oracle Service Bus 11g [July 2011]
by William Markito Oliveira

Interoperability Between Oracle WebLogic Server 11g and Microsoft.NET WCF 4.0 Using Secure Web Services, Part 2 [May 2011]
by Juan Carlos (John Charles) Olamendy Turruellas

Build Process-Oriented Applications [April 2011]
by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema

Best Practices for Configuration Management in a SOA Environment [April 2011]
by Brian Jimerson

Book Excerpt: Introduction to SCA Bindings [February 2011]

by Simon Laws, Mark Combellack, Raymond Feng, Haleh Mahbod, Simon Nash

Building a SOA Practice from the Ground Up: A SOA Suite Case Study [January 2011]
by Brian Jimerson

Business Agility Using Business Process Management and SOA [December 2010]
by Gabriel Bechara

Interoperability Between Oracle WebLogic Server 11g and Microsoft.NET WCF 4.0 Using Secure Web Services [October 2010]
by Juan Carlos (John Charles) Olamendy Turruellas

Data Tier Caching for SOA Performance [February 2010]
by Kiran Dattani, Milind Pandit, Markus Zirn

Code-Free Application Extensions and Integrations [February 2010]
by Sandeep Banerjie, Srikant Subramaniam, Nikhilesh Chitnis

Setting Web Service and JCA Adapter Endpoints Dynamically in Oracle SOA Suite [February 2010]
by Simone Geib

The Oracle BPM Directory Explained [January 2010]
by Mariano Benitez

SOA Management: OSB (aka ALSB) Management [December 2009]
by Debu Panda and Arvind Maheshwari

Jumpstart for Oracle Service Bus Development [November 2009]
by Ronald van Luttikhuizen and Eric Elzinga

Building Intelligent Processes with Insight-Driven Agility [August 2009]
by Matt Miller and Mark Simpson

Process-Driven SOA Development [August 2009]
by Matjaz B. Juric

Clustering SOA Suite [June 2009]
by Antony Reynolds

Best practices 2: Web Services [July 2009]
by Ronald van Luttikhuizen

RESTful Services with Oracle Service Bus [June 2009]
by Jeff Davies

Tactical SOA Governance Processes - Where to Start? [June-2009]
by Dave Berry

Why an Application Grid? [April 2009]
by Adam Messinger and Mike Piech

sCrawler: SOA Dependency Tracker [July 2009]
by Sandeep Phukan

Developing a Knowledge Module in Oracle Data Integrator [June 2009]
by Uli Bethke

Web Services Support in Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse [May 2009]
by Ronald van Luttikhuizen

Improving the Efficiency of SOA-Based Applications [May 2009]
by Dave Chappell and Andrew Gregory

Comparison: WLI File Control and the Oracle File Adapter [18-May-2009]
by Daniel Amadei and Heidi Buelow

Connecting Visibility to Value: Data Integration and Business Intelligence [May 2009]
by Dain Hansen

Why an Application Grid? | SOA World [April 2009]
by Adam Messinger and Mike Piech

SOA World Expo: A Guide to Ensuring the Success of Your SOA Governance [April 2009]
by Ashish Mohindroo

Data Services in SOA: Maximizing the Benefits in Enterprise Architecture [April 2009]
by Joan Lawson

Comparison of the WLI Database Event Generator and the Oracle Database Adapter [April 2009]
by Nacho Lafuente and Miquel Lopez-Miralpeix

Understanding Business Activity Monitoring in Oracle SOA Suite [March 2009]
by Matt Wright

Creating and Using Custom Java EE Connector Architecture Adapters [March 2009]
by Ronald van Luttikhuizen

What is a Reusable Service? [March 2009]
by Gabriel Bechara

SOA Design Pattern Application Sequences: Service Facade + UI Mediator [February 2009]
by Thomas Erl

Book Excerpt: SOA Design Patterns [January 2009]
by Thomas Erl, et al

SOA Patterns - Canonical Schema Bus [January 2009]
by Hajo Normann, Torsten Winterberg, Bernd Trops, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Berthold Maier

SOA Patterns - UI Mediator [January 2009]
by Torsten Winterberg, Bernd Trops, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Berthold Maier

SOA Patterns - Compensating Service Transaction [January 2009]
by Hajo Normann, Torsten Winterberg, Bernd Trops, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Berthold Maier

BPEL Coming to People [December 2008]
by Manoj Das and Bhagat Nainani

SOA Integration in the Legacy Environment [October 2008]
by Tom Laszewski and Jason Williamson

Making SOA Leaner and Cleaner to Maximize Profits (Part I of II) [October 2008]
by Mohamad Afshar and David Chappell

Extreme Reusability [October 2008]
by Avrom

Working With Transactions [September 2008]
by Kathryn Holden, Antony Reynolds and Tejas Joshi

Extending the Business Value of SOA through Business Process Management [September 2008]
by John Brunswick

Architecting Event-Driven SOA: A Primer [September 2008]
by Clemens Utschig-Utschig

Transforming BPMN into BPEL: Why and How [September 2008]
by Lonneke Dikmans

Architecting Event-Driven SOA: A Primer [September 2008]
by Clemens Utschig-Utschig

Extending the Business Value of SOA through Business Process Management [September 2008]
by John Brunswick

Web Services Versioning [August 2008]
by Gabriel Bechara

Mastering SOA: Exposing Services Through Rich User Interfaces [August 2008]
by Jennifer Briscoe