www.it-ebooks.info Oracle SOA Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook Over 65 high-level recipes for extending your Oracle SOA applications and enhancing your skills with expert tips and tricks for developers Antony Reynolds Matt Wright BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI www.it-ebooks.info Oracle SOA Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook 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 978-1-84968-388-3 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Artie Ng (artherng@yahoo.com.au) www.it-ebooks.info Credits Authors Antony Reynolds Matt Wright Contributors James Goddard Adrian Lewis Brett Lomas ShuXuan Nie Geoff Trench Reviewers Edwin Biemond Phil McLaughlin Acquisition Editor Stephanie Moss Lead Technical Editor Susmita Panda Technical Editors Veronica Fernandes Worrell Lewis Copy Editors Insiya Morbiwala Brandt D'Mello Alda Paiva Project Coordinator Leena Purkait Proofreader Linda Morris Indexer Hemangini Bari Graphics Aditi Gajjar Production Coordinator Nilesh R. Mohite Cover Work Nilesh R. Mohite www.it-ebooks.info About the Authors Antony Reynolds has worked in the IT industry for more than 25 years, rst getting a job to maintain yield calculations for a zinc smelter while still an undergraduate. After graduating from the University of Bristol with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, he worked rst for a software house, IPL in Bath, England, before joining the travel reservations system Galileo as a development team lead. Galileo gave him the opportunity to work in Colorado and Illinois where he developed a love for the Rockies and Chicago style deep pan pizza. Since joining Oracle in 1998, he has worked in sales consulting and support. He currently works as a Sales Consultant helping customers across North America realize the benets of standards based integration and SOA. While at Oracle he has co-authored Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide, Packt Publishing and Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 Developer's Guide, Packt Publishing. Antony lives in Colorado with his wife and four children who make sure that he is gainfully employed playing games, watching movies, and acting as an auxiliary taxi service. He is a slow but steady runner and can often be seen jogging up and down the trails in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. I would like to thank my wife Rowan, and my four very patient children, who have put up with my staying at home on family trips and working late nights in my basement ofce as I completed this book. My managers Ed Lee and Troy Hewitt were very supportive and many of my colleagues contributed knowingly or unknowingly to the recipes. I am appreciative of Michael Weingartner and his team for their continued enhancement and development of the SOA Suite which has enabled Matt and myself to write this book. The reviewers provided valuable guidance and corrections and any errors still remaining are entirely mine. Finally, the team at Packt Publishing constantly nagged and cajoled Matt and myself to keep some sort of schedule. Without them this book would still be on the drawing board. www.it-ebooks.info Matt Wright is a director at Rubicon Red, an independent consulting rm helping customers enable enterprise agility and operational excellence through the adoption of technologies such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), and Cloud Computing. With over 20 years of experience in building enterprise scale distributed systems, Matt rst became involved with SOA shortly after the initial submission of SOAP 1.1 to the W3C in 2000, and has worked with some of the early adopters of BPEL since its initial release in 2002. Since then, he has been engaged in some of the earliest SOA-based implementations across EMEA and APAC. Prior to Rubicon Red, he held various senior roles within Oracle, most recently as Director of Product Management for Oracle Fusion Middleware in APAC, where he was responsible for working with organizations to educate and enable them in realizing the full business benets of SOA in solving complex business problems. As a recognized authority on SOA, he is a regular speaker and instructor at private and public events. He also enjoys writing and publishes his own blog (http://blogs.bpel-people. com ). He holds a B.Sc. (Eng) in Computer Science from Imperial College, University of London. He has worked on Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide, Packt Publishing and Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 Developer's Guide, Packt Publishing. I would like to express my deep appreciation to everyone who has reviewed this book. Their invaluable feedback and advice not only helped to validate the overall accuracy of the content, but more importantly ensure its clarity and readability. A book like this doesn't make it into print without a lot of work from the publisher. I would like to thank the team at Packt Publishing for all their support; especially Stephanie Moss, Leena Purkait, and Susmita Panda. A special mention must go to John Deeb for his continual encouragement, input, and above all support in ensuring that I found time to write the book; I couldn't ask for a more supportive friend and business partner. Finally, I would like to say a very, very special thank you to my wife Natasha and my children Elliot and Kimberley, who have been incredibly patient and supportive in allowing me to spend far too many evenings and weekends stuck away in my ofce writing this book. www.it-ebooks.info Contributors The creation of the content for this book has been very much a team effort, with many contributions from the great team at Rubicon Red. In particular I would like to thank James Goddard, Adrian Lewis, Brett Lomas, ShuXuan Nie, and Geoff Trench, each one of whom contributed ideas and recipes to the book. James Goddard is a software developer with 10 years of experience in IT, initially within the telecommunication and utility industries in Melbourne, Australia. He specialised in system integration design and development using Oracle Middleware before joining Rubicon Red as a Consulting Architect in 2010. As a member of an energetic and innovative team of Oracle experts, James was able to advise and contribute to SOA initiatives at a variety of organisations around Australia. He currently holds a position within Amazon Kindle, building highly scalable web services for Amazon's digital product offerings in Seattle, WA. Adrian Lewis is an SOA & Integration Solution Architect for Rubicon Red in Australia. He is currently responsible for delivering a BPM and SOA solution for a Victorian state government ofce using an implementation of Rubicon Red's FMW reference architecture. Adrian spent the previous 5 years working as a Principal Consultant for Red Rock, delivering SOA, Human Workow, and integration solutions in Victoria and Queensland. Adrian holds a BEng(Hons) in Cybernetics and Control Engineering from the University of Reading in England. www.it-ebooks.info Brett Lomas has been working in the IT industry for over 10 years in an ever varying capacity. He is known for his passion for IT and how it can transform businesses when used effectively. In his spare time he likes to use his pilot’s license to explore Australia. Brett has recently worked for Oracle in the capacity of a Solution Architect , helping partners gain the most value out of Oracle's Middleware stack. Most recently Brett is employed as an SOA and BPM practitioner for Rubicon Red working with key customers throughout Australia and New Zealand. ShuXuan Nie has more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry that includes SOA technologies such as BPEL, ESB, SOAP, XML, and Enterprise Java technologies, Eclipse plug-ins, and other areas such as C++ cross-platform development. Since 2010, she has been working in Rubicon Red and helping customers resolve integration issues. Prior to Rubicon Red, she has worked for Oracle Global Customer Support team, IBM China Software Development Lab, and the Australia Bureau of Meteorology Research Center where she was responsible for the implementation of an Automated Thunderstorm Interactive Forecast System for Aviation and Defence. ShuXuan holds an MS in Computer Science from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Geoff Trench has been playing with computers since the days of the Atari 800XL, and working with them professionally for over 15 years, building solutions for a wide range of industries with too many languages and tools to count. www.it-ebooks.info About the Reviewer Edwin Biemond is an Oracle ACE and Solution Architect at Amis, specializing in messaging with Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Service Bus, and an expert in ADF development, WebLogic, High Availability and Security. His Oracle career began in 1997 where he was developing an ERP, CRM system with Oracle tools. Since 2001 he changed his focus to integration, security, and Java development. He was awarded with the Java Developer of the year 2009 by Oracle Magazine. In 2010, he won the EMEA Oracle Partner Community Award. 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Suite cluster is typically made up of several WebLogic clusters; a Web Services Manager cluster, an SOA cluster, and a BAM cluster These clusters may share hardware, as shown in the following figure: 9 www.it-ebooks.info Building an SOA Suite Cluster An SOA Suite Cluster contains not just the core SOA Suite functionality of BPEL, Mediator, Rules, and Human Workflow but also Web Services Manager and... BAM The Web Services Manager and BAM have their own WebLogic clusters which run alongside the core SOA cluster Hence, the SOA Suite cluster has within it three WebLogic clusters, one of which, the SOA cluster, has the core SOA Suite functionality In our three-machine cluster we have chosen to have an SOA Cluster with three managed servers, a BAM cluster with two managed servers, and a WSM cluster with... Java with SOA Suite 203 Chapter 10: Securing Composites and Calling Secure Web Services 231 Chapter 11: Configuring the Identity Service 253 Chapter 12: Configuring OSB to Use Foreign JMS Queues 277 Introduction Creating a custom XPath function for SOA Suite Calling an EJB from an SOA composite Using a Spring bean in an SOA composite Using an EJB reference in a Spring component Accessing the SOA runtime . integration and SOA. While at Oracle he has co-authored Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide, Packt Publishing and Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 Developer's. www.it-ebooks.info Oracle SOA Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook Over 65 high-level recipes for extending your Oracle SOA applications and enhancing