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What is Service Oriented Architecture?
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a paradigm for organizing and utilizing distributed capabilities that may be under the control of different ownership domains. It provides a uniform means to offer, discover, interact with and use capabilities to produce desired effects consistent with measurable preconditions and expectations.
SOA is not :
- A technology;
- The miracle solution to many of today's IT problems;
- Only about business-oriented services.
The pillars of SOA are service repository, service provider, service consumers, service description, service policies and governance.
Advantages of SOA
SOA provides a simple and scalable paradigm and advocates the reuse, growth and interoperability of services. These services are units providing business or technical functionalities, which are:
- Clearly described using open standards;
- Opaque by mean of implementation, portable and scalable across low-level IT infrastructure (abstraction);
- Autonomous or dependent on third parties (composition);
- Often stored in a service registry and categorized with standard taxonomies.
Benefits of SOA
A complete and proper implementation of SOA
- may provide a solid foundation for increasing IT agility and adaptability, and reducing costs of IT integrations;
- might be a strong business discriminator in terms of competitiveness, innovation, collaboration, and operational costs;
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Abstract |
Author |
At a Glance |
| SOA in a Nutshell |
This short introduction is to clarify some of the misconceptions surrounding SOA. It is in no way a comprehensive guide to SOA (if such exists) but instead aims to provide a simple definition and a first look into the concept. |
Geoffrey de Lamalle |
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| CSI: SOA |
Along with the phenomenal benefits provided by implementing a SOA architecture, teams must equip themselves with a new skills and software to deal with the fact that several of the historical methods for debugging and tuning their applications will no longer be viable. In this presentation, the Oracle SOA suite will be presented illustrating the products included, and how they work together to enable a SOA architecture. These will then be contrasted to historical implementations illustrating where gaps have been introduced in debugging and testing capabilities. Finally, several experience based tips, techniques and tools will be discussed that bridge these gaps highlighting several features of the SOA suite, and additional toolsets such as the Oracle Grid Manager. In this hour session many of the more dangerous landmines encountered will be covered as well as solutions derived from project based experiences that will allow one to overcome the challenge or sidestep the danger altogether |
Shaun O'Brien |
Oracle SOA Suite, SOA Architecture, Oracle Grid Manager |
| How to build Rich Internet Applications based on SOA using Oracle tools |
Are you wondering how you could build rich Internet applications based on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)? If so, this presentation is for you! You will learn how to build rich Internet applications using ADF Faces, how to build a SOA that uses BPEL and ADF Business Components and how to connect Web pages to the SOA using the ADF Model framework. You will also discover the benefits of using Oracle JDeveloper as a unique development tool. |
Eric Marcoux |
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| SOA in the wading pool |
To many people, SOA may seem an overwhelming paradigm and something reserved for huge organizations with even deeper pockets. This could not be further from the truth. This session will introduce the newly released Oracle SOA Suite. Each of the components of the suite will be covered in approachable, yet comprehensive detail illustrating how each helps achieve the vision of Oracle Fusion. During this presentation, examples by way of code and case study will illustrate how SOA can be just as approachable and successful for the small to mid-size organization as for the larger corporations. In one hour, attendees will develop the confidence to lead their organizations into the SOA pool without worry that they’re heading in over their heads. |
Shaun O'Brien |
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| What's the Fuss about Fusion? SOA and Oracle |
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a standards-based framework that represents business functions as a set of shared, reusable services. Services can in turn be combined and orchestrated to produce composite services and business processes. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) provides the backbone of SOA. The ESB is a standards-based integration platform that combines middleware and services on the network. This presentation introduces the basic concepts and terminology of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and its importance to IT. The session will provide the basic information necessary to help you enthusiastically participate in the implementation of SOA at your organization. Upon completion of this session you should be able to: explain the concepts and principles of SOA, explain the benefits of the SOA approach, and describe the basic function of an ESB. Oracle's Fusion Middleware provides an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with features to support many messaging and routing . |
Shaun O'Brien |
Basic concepts of SOA, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) |
| Oracle Identity Management - The Total Identity Solution |
Over the past 2 years Oracle has acquired major players in every aspect of the Identity Management realm. This leaves a lot of questions with what is going to be continued to be supported and what is not. This is a real world from the trenches talk that discusses actual identity implementations. The discussion will cover all of the components of the Oracle Identity Management Suite, how they function, their similarities and differences, and the best practice solutions for each component. |
Matt Topper |
Oracle Identity Management Suite, identity implementations and best practices. |
| Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.1 Overview and Update |
This session will provide a functional and technical overview of the key standards for SOA, the products within the Oracle SOA Suite and includes an end-to-end demo of an application illustrating how BPEL, ESB, Business Rules, adapters and BAM can all work together in a unified fashion. The demo will also highlight how an Oracle application (EBS, PSFT, SEBL, JDE) can be incorporated into a business process in less than two minutes. New Oracle products related to SOA such as the Oracle BPA Suite for business process analysis, modeling and simulation will also be described. Finally case studies will be presented of how Peoplesoft and other Oracle Apps groups are leveraging Oracle SOA technologies internally today. |
Robin Zimmerman |
Overview of products within Oracle's SOA Suite, Oracle's BPA Suite, and case studies. |
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