D84365 – Oracle SOA Suite 12c: Essential Concepts

Service-Oriented Architecture Concepts

• What is SOA?
• About SOA building blocks
• How to adopt SOA?
• Discussing SOA standards

Getting Started with Oracle SOA Suite 12c

• About SCA service components supported in Oracle SOA Suite 12c
• Explaining product components in Oracle SOA Suite 12c
• Discussing management tools of Oracle SOA Suite 12c

Building SOA Composite Applications

• About XML basics
• Describing composite applications and service components according to Service Component Architecture (SCA)
• About service design principles
• Getting started with SOA composite application implementation in JDeveloper

Orchestrating Services with BPEL Process Components

• About BPEL concepts and BPEL process features
• Discussing basic programming constructs of a BPEL process
• Communicating message data by using variables in the BPEL process
• Consuming web services
• Developing a BPEL process by using the BPEL process template provided by BPEL Process Designer

Connecting with Binding Components 

• Explaining Binding components
• Describing JCA adapters
• Describing REST adapter

Mediating Messages with Mediator Components

• Discussing functionality and features of a Mediator component
• Discussing context of using a Mediator component
• Configuring a Mediator component with routing rules

Encapsulating Business Logic with Business Rules Components

• Defining business rules
• Using Business Rule service components in SOA Composites
• Editing business rules by using SOA Composer

Implementing Human Activities with Human Workflow Components

• Discussing Human Workflow service concepts
• About Human Workflow architecture
• Creating and defining Human Tasks
• Integrating the Human Task service component in the BPEL process

Virtualizing and Securing Services

• Discussing concepts of Enterprise Service Bus
• Explaining functions performed by Oracle Service Bus
• Creating and configuring services in Oracle Service Bus
• Securing a SOA composite application

Managing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Composite Application

• About SOA composite application management
• Deploying a SOA application
• Monitoring composite instances
• Discussing fault handling
• Monitoring business activities

Enabling On-Premises Integration

• How Oracle B2B is integrated with Oracle SOA to enable electronic document exchange between business partners?
• How Oracle MFT works with Oracle SOA to handle file transfers?

Enabling Mobile and Cloud Integration

• How SOA Suite simplifies mobile integration?
• How SOA Suite simplifies cloud integration?