www.it-ebooks.info Oracle SOA Infrastructure Implementation Certication Handbook (1Z0-451) Successfully ace the 1Z0-451 Oracle SOA Foundation Practitioner exam with this hands on certication guide Kathiravan Udayakumar PUBLISHING professional expertise distilled BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI www.it-ebooks.info Oracle SOA Infrastructure Implementation Certication Handbook (1Z0-451) Copyright © 2012 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. 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ISBN 978-1-84968-340-1 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Mark Holland (MJH767@bham.ac.uk) www.it-ebooks.info Credits Author Kathiravan Udayakumar Reviewers Hans Forbrich Arun Pareek Jayaprakash Rajendran Kalyan Sura Acquisition Editor Stephanie Moss Lead Technical Editor Dayan Hyames Technical Editors Manali Mehta Ankita Shashi Manmeet Singh Vasir Copy Editor Leonard D'Silva Project Coordinator Sai Gamare Proofreaders Lisa Brady Aaron Nash Indexer Tejal Daruwale Graphics Valentina D'silva Manu Joseph Production Coordinator Arvindkumar Gupta Cover Work Arvindkumar Gupta www.it-ebooks.info About the Author Kathiravan Udayakumar has more than 8 years of IT experience with expertise in Oracle Fusion Middleware products and PeopleSoft applications. Interestingly, all his experiences relate to the world's rst implementation (Greeneld) of IT system implementation and system integration. Kathiravan holds a Bachelor's degree as a Gold Medalist in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University; a Master of Science degree in System Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani; and a Master of Business Administration degree in Sales and Marketing from Symbiosis Institute, Pune. He has extensive experience in architecting and designing solutions using various Oracle Fusion and PeopleSoft products. He works for a highly-reputed IT consulting organization and is considered to be a key member of the Fusion CoE team. He has trained more than 100 associates in Fusion Middleware 11g to gain the skills for developing and designing solutions using Oracle SOA Suite 11g. Kathiravan has extensive experience in the IT certication area for many years now, right from his college days. He holds various IT certications from Cisco, IBM, Oracle, and BrainBench. I would like to thank my family and friends who have always been supportive and helped me to move forward in all walks of my life. I would especially like to thank my colleague Jayaprakash Rajendran, who volunteered to review this book without any hesitation, and provided valuable comments on time despite his busy schedule. I would also like to thank all the members of Packt editorial team who have constantly helped me to improve this book with their valuable comments and service. www.it-ebooks.info About the Reviewers Hans Forbrich, who is an Oracle ACE Director, has been working with Oracle technologies for a number of years, starting with Oracle Database v4 and Oracle Middleware using Oracle Web Server 3.0. He is an Oracle University partner instructor; owner and principal partner in Forbrich Consulting Group, which is an OPN member. He is a consultant on high availability platforms using Oracle Linux and Oracle VM under Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies, and is frequently invited to Oracle conferences to discuss a variety of Oracle-related topics. Arun Pareek is an SOA Practitioner working on SOA-based implementation projects in the capacity of a Consultant and Architect for over 5 years now. He is also an IASA certied Software Architect and currently co-authoring a book on Oracle SOA Suite Administration for Packt Publishing. He has been actively working on an SOA Suite of products for both BEA and Oracle including technologies like Service Bus, AIA, BPEL, BAM, BPA, and BPMN. He has a knack for designing systems that are scalable, performant, and fault-tolerant and is an enthusiast of Automated Continuous Integration techniques. He is also an active blogger on these technologies and runs a popular blog at http://beatechnologies.wordpress.com. I would like to appreciate the encouragement that I received from my parents for helping me achieve many things in life. A special note of thanks to my wonderful wife, Karuna, for her constant support, cooperation, and patience, without which it would have been impossible for me to manage my work and life together. www.it-ebooks.info Jayaprakash Rajendran has around 7 years of IT experience with expertise in PL/ SQL programming, Oracle SOA 10g/11g Suite, PeopleSoft Application development, and Enterprise Application Integration with experience in Oracle SOA 11g, Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.x, and Oracle AIA. He has experience in working with technology adapters such as File Adapter, FTP Adapter, Database Adapter, JMS Adapter, and Oracle AQ Adapter. I would like to thank Kathiravan for giving me the opportunity to review this book and provide my input. Kalyan Sura holds a Master's degree in Computers and has 15 years of IT experience. He provided technical and functional leadership on multiple large-scale full lifecycle ERP, CRM, and SOA implementations including formulating system scope and objectives. Kalyan helped re-architect several mid-to-large scale B2B systems by providing detailed architectural specications and a technical approach. He published and presented whitepapers on Oracle E-Business Suite and integration technologies at both regional and international Oracle conferences. He recently completed a leadership course at Harvard BSP. He is well-known for his strategic thinking, technical expertise, implementation abilities, and innovation while handling tough assignments and providing quality results. He successfully demonstrated applying existing and emerging technologies to deliver multiple concurrent large-scale projects. He is a persuasive negotiator successfully presenting complex tactical/program plans to corporate leaders and decision makers to achieve their buy-in. 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Find out when new books are published by following @PacktEnterprise on Twitter, or the Packt Enterprise Facebook page. www.it-ebooks.info www.it-ebooks.info Table of Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1: Overview of Oracle SOA Certication 9 Introduction to Oracle and the products 10 Oracle acquisition 11 Introducing Oracle SOA Suite 11g 13 New features in Oracle SOA Suite 11g 15 Oracle SOA certication objectives 15 Why get certied? 18 Exam details 18 Registration procedure 19 Summary 19 Chapter 2: Service-Oriented Architecture Concepts 21 What is SOA? 21 Do we really benet a lot by designing applications using this method? 22 What is the business signicance of this new architecture? 22 Do we need to learn new languages in doing this? 23 Describing the SOA concepts 23 Identifying standards that enable SOA 24 WS-Messaging standards 26 WS-Service Description and Discovery standards 26 WS-Reliability standards 27 WS-Transaction standards 27 WS-Security standards 27 WS-Business Process standards 28 WS-Management standards 28 Describing the Event Driven Architecture (EDA) 29 A real world example to understand EDA 29 EDA with Oracle SOA Suite 11g 30 www.it-ebooks.info [...]... Features of Oracle SOA Suite 11g—EDN 30 30 Reviewing the Service Component Architecture (SCA) 31 SCA with Oracle SOA Suite 11g 34 Summary 35 Self-review questions 35 Chapter 3: SOA Composite Application 39 Oracle SOA Suite 11g components 40 Oracle SOA component description: BPEL 40 Oracle SOA component description: Mediator 41 Oracle SOA component description: Business Rules 41 Oracle SOA component... with an overview of Oracle its products, its technologies, certification, its benefits, and importance In this chapter, we shall attempt to understand the following: • Oracle and products • Oracle SOA Suite 11g • Oracle SOA certification objectives • Why get certified? www.it-ebooks.info Overview of Oracle SOA Certification • Exam details • Exam registration procedure Introduction to Oracle and the products... Overview of Oracle SOA Certification Welcome to the new world of Oracle You have picked the right book for gaining expertise in Oracle SOA Suite and certifying yourself as a highly qualified professional in the growing pool of the Oracle SOA Consultant/Developer community This book will help you to understand the exam objectives for getting the Oracle Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure Implementation. .. component description: Business Rules 41 Oracle SOA component description: Human Task 42 Oracle SOA component description: Adapter 42 Oracle SOA component description: Business Activity Monitor 43 Oracle SOA component description: B2B 44 Oracle SOA component description: MDS 44 SOA Composite Editor 44 Defining an Oracle SOA Composite application 48 Summary 56 Self-review questions 57 Chapter 4: Working... The Oracle BAM ADF control Integrating BAM with Oracle SOA Suite Oracle B2B Features of an Oracle B2B product Industry-standard protocols supported by Oracle B2B Oracle B2B 11g home page Oracle B2B deploy agreement Oracle B2B metrics report Oracle B2B Reference Integration Architecture Summary Self-review questions Chapter 12: Monitoring and Managing SOA 11g Deployment 230 230 232 232 233 233 233 233... acquisition, Oracle SOA Suite is gaining the importance for integrating the applications for completing business process-oriented fusion applications Oracle SOA Suite will continue to evolve as the products are acquired by Oracle and as customers tend to use them in a standalone middleware context Introducing Oracle SOA Suite 11g Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a very critical release of the Oracle middleware... Architecture (SOA) concepts 1.2 Identifies standards that enable SOA 1.3 Reviews Service Component Architecture (SCA) 1.4 Describes Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) 2.1 Describes Oracle SOA Suite 11g components 2.2 Describes the service components 2.3 Defines a composite application 2.4 Describes the SOA composite editor 2 SOA Composite Applications [ 15 ] www.it-ebooks.info Overview of Oracle SOA Certification. .. http://www .oracle. com/partners/en/knowledge-zone/ middleware /oracle- service-oriented-architecture -soa/ soa- exam-page-170307.html http://www .oracle. com/us/education /certification/ score-info-079154.html [ 18 ] www.it-ebooks.info Chapter 1 Registration procedure The registration procedure for taking the Oracle Certification Exam can be obtained from the following link: http://www.pearsonvue.com /Oracle/ ... and undeploying the SOA composite application Using JDeveloper to deploy the composites Using the SOA EM SOA deployment wizard to deploy the SAR file generated through JDeveloper 247 247 Undeploying composites SOA configuration plan Management of the SOA composite application using the Enterprise Manager SOA farms and topology features Managing and monitoring the SOA composite SOA EM Export features... Oracle SOA Foundation Practitioner exam This book will provide you with real-world scenarios for explaining the concepts involved in using Oracle SOA components The focus of this exam is on the Oracle SOA Suite 11g release Service Oriented Architecture is growing in importance day-by-day in the information technology space, and the number of customers implementing SOA solutions is growing as well Oracle . Oracle SOA Certication 9 Introduction to Oracle and the products 10 Oracle acquisition 11 Introducing Oracle SOA Suite 11g 13 New features in Oracle SOA. www.it-ebooks.info Oracle SOA Infrastructure Implementation Certication Handbook (1Z0-451) Successfully ace the 1Z0-451 Oracle SOA Foundation Practitioner