an unbiased look: oracle soa suite 12c
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An Unbiased Look: Oracle SOA Suite 12c
ACC – Liverpool Hall 4A
November 12, 2014 17:30 – 18:20
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About Us
Ahmed Aboulnaga @Ahmed_Aboulnaga
18+ years Oracle experience
Author of “Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator’s Handbook”
OCE (SOA Foundation Practitioner)
Oracle ACE
Harold Dost III @hdost
6+ years of Oracle Middleware experience
OCE (SOA Foundation Practitioner)
Oracle ACE Associate
.
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About Raastech
Small systems integrator founded in 2009
Headquartered in the Washington DC area
Specializes in Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oracle Platinum Partner & Reseller
Oracle SOA Specialized
100% of consultants are Oracle certified
100% of consultants present at major Oracle conferences
100% of consultants have published books, whitepapers, or articles
Oracle ACE on staff – 2 of 500 worldwide
Oracle SOA Specialized – 1 in 1,500 worldwide
Oracle Platinum Partner – 1 in 3,000 worldwide
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Agenda
1. What problem are we solving?
2. Why Oracle SOA Suite?
3. Introducing Oracle SOA Suite 12c
4. What’s Not Really New
5. What’s New
6. First Impressions
Successes
Failures
7. Summary
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What is Integration?
Integration involves…
…connecting disparate applications.
…moving messages.
…quickly, reliably, and securely.
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What is SOA?
SOA = Service Oriented Architecture
SOA relies on the concept that services are loosely coupled, reusable,
and based on open standards.
Before SOA After SOA
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Why Oracle SOA Suite?
Oracle SOA Suite provides a complete, open, integrated, and best of
breed solution that supports all middleware and integration needs.
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Gartner Assessment
Oracle is positioned in the leaders quadrant in all 3 Gartner Magic Quadrants related to application
infrastructure and middleware (2013).
Oracle continues innovate and lead with its on-premise and cloud integration offerings, and is a
leader in Gartner’s on-premise application integration (2014).
Magic Quadrant for On-Premise Application Integration Suites
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Why Oracle SOA Suite?
Simpler and faster drag-and-drop development.
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Oracle SOA Landscape
Oracle SOA Suite
Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
Oracle B2B Integration
Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
Oracle Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS)
Oracle BPEL Process Manager
Oracle Human Workflow
Oracle Business Rules
Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) Suite
Oracle Managed File Transfer (MFT)
Oracle Data Integration (ODI)
Oracle Service Registry (OSR)
Oracle Event Processing (OEP)
Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER)
Oracle Core Services (previously AIA)
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Oracle SOA Suite 12c
Many improvements over 11g.
A unified toolset for the development of services and composite applications.
A standards-based platform that is service enabled and easily consumable by modern web applications.
Allow enterprises to quickly and easily adapt to changes in their business and IT environments.
Greater visibility, controls, and analytics to govern how services and processes are deployed, reused and changed across their entire lifecycle.
Helps mobile-enable existing applications.
Integrates with the cloud.
Begin development on the latest trend of connecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices to existing infrastructure.
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Supported Features & Capabilities
Services • Virtualization • Service level agreements • Message routing • Message transformation • Message encryption
Processes • Orchestration • Transactional / Compensating • BPEL, BPMN • Business Rules and Human workflow • System integration
Security • Message level encryption • Field level encryption • Basic Auth and SAML • Fine grained authorization • Identity management
Management & Monitoring • Unified management • Assets & Impact Analysis • Reuse and ROI metrics • Architectural standards & enforcement • Reporting & Dashboards
100% Standard • WS-* • WSDL / SOAP / UDDI / REST • XML /XPath / XQuery / XSLT • Service Component Architecture • WSI-BP
Development • Java • SCA Standard assembly • BPEL, BPMN • HTML / XML / WSDL • Maven / Ant / Continuous Integration
Deployment • Service Component Architecture (SCA) • Applications • Servers
Integration • JCA Adapters • Web Services and HTTP/HTML • ERP • Custom
Event Oriented • Complex event recognition • Complex event query language (CQL) • Declarative • Streaming
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SOA Integration
Can develop using BPEL, Mediator, and/or OSB, to easily perform
abstraction, transformation, routing, and orchestration.
Flat File
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SOA Integration
Can develop using BPEL, Mediator, and/or OSB, to easily perform
abstraction, transformation, routing, and orchestration.
<Employee>
<First>John</First>
<Last>Doe</Last>
<DOB>12/31/1970</DOB>
<Country>U.S.A.</Country> </Employee>
<Person>
<Name>John Doe</Name>
<Bday>1970-12-31</BDay>
<Country>US</Country> </Person>
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SOA Integration
Can develop using BPEL, Mediator, and/or OSB, to easily perform
abstraction, transformation, routing, and orchestration.
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SOA Integration
Can develop using BPEL, Mediator, and/or OSB, to easily perform
abstraction, transformation, routing, and orchestration.
Web Service
Create Customer
Web Service
Query Inventory
Web Service
Create Order
Web Service
Process Payment
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Adapters
Databases Oracle 8i and above IBM DB/2 UDB Informix Microsoft SQL Server Sybase Clarion Clipper Cloudscape DBASE Dialog Essbase FOCUS Data Access Great Plains MUMPS (Digital Standard MUMPS) Navision Financials (ODBC 3.x) Nucleus Paradox Pointbase PROGRESS Red Brick RMS SAS Transport Format Teradata Unisys DMS 1100/2200 UniVerse
Applications • Oracle Applications • SAP R/3 • Peoplesoft • JD Edwards • Siebel • Clarify • Lotus Notes • Ariba • AXIOM mx/open • Baan • BroadVision • Clarify • Commerce One • Hogan Financials • i2 Technologies • Lawson • Livelink • Manugistics • Microsoft CRM • Vantive • Walker Interactive • Remedy • Salesforce.com
Technology SOAP HTTP, HTTP-S Email – POP3, SMTP, IMAP FTP, FTP-S Flat File JMS Oracle AQ IBM MQSeries LDAP TIBCO Rendezvous Socket
Legacy CICS IMS/DB IMS/TM VSAM CA-IDMS ADABAS Natural Tuxedo CA-Datacom Screen Scraping C-ISAM,D-ISAM,K-SAM, QSAM
.
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Expected and Supported Capabilities
Monitoring
BAM and Sensors
Tracing Transactions
Instance Flows
Administration
Message Recovery
Design Patterns
Synchronous, Asynchronous, Human Workflow, etc.
.
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Focus Areas
Notable additions to Oracle SOA Suite 12c:
Mobile Integration
Cloud Integration
Internet of Things (IoT) Integration
.
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Mobile Integration
Improved wizards and adapters allows
for easier REST integration.
Can easily expose any reference or
service as REST.
Automated conversion from XML to
JSON.
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Cloud Integration
New adapters to allow interacting with external parties easily.
Example: Reduce number of calls (caching metadata).
Example: Merge divided data into complete data sets.
Example: Convert XML to SOSL/SOQL.
Oracle Cloud Adapters deal with the nuances of each cloud provider’s services
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Cloud Adapter Framework
Hard to find good
information on it.
So far it’s mostly
marketing.
Did find the JARs on the
installation, and no real
information on how to use
them.
.
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Cloud Adapter Framework
Two Halves
Design Time
Run Time
.
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Internet of… Things?
Machines talking to Machines
Internet of Things (IoT)
Integration nuance
.
According to Gartner, there will be nearly 26 billion devices on the Internet of Things by 2020
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Oracle Event Processing (OEP)
Old product CEP (Complex Event Processing).
Comes with SOA Suite for Oracle Fusion Middleware, but
restricted from use on Weblogic Server Basic.
Development now merged into Jdeveloper.
Bug fixes, not much else?
.
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LDAP Adapter
Provides CRUD access and polling to LDAP from SCA,
OSB, and other deployed applications.
.
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LDAP Adapter
Configurable like any other Adapter, allowing for JNDI to
be used.
.
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LDAP Adapter
Like the Database Adapter, the
wizard requires a live server for
initial setup.
.
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Coherence Adapter
Coherence is a product that supports in-memory distributed caching.
To be used with data that is not frequently updated.
Will not require backend until it has expired.
Internal tests show 15% query improvement.
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Single JDeveloper Design Time for OSB and SCA
No longer need Eclipse (for OSB
development) and JDeveloper
(for everything else).
A single platform for
development is supported with
Oracle JDeveloper 12c.
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Maven for Dependency Management
Well supported dependency management framework
Use to generate projects
Perform tests
Integrated into JDeveloper
.
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Maven for Dependency Management
Doesn’t appear to be fully documented yet…
.
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Maven for Dependency Management
Helpful link:
http://bit.ly/ORCLMVN
Oracle’s Maven
repository:
http://maven.oracle.com
.
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Greater Support for Testing
Testing of BPEL internals from Composite Tests.
.
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ECID Spans OSB
ECID = Execution Context ID
Single unique identifier allows for easier tracing of transactions across
systems.
Example:
11d1def534ea1be0:7ae4cac3:13b4455735c:-8000-00000000000002dc
Can now trace down to OSB in the audit trial of instances in EM Control.
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Full SOAP Message in Instance Trace
Namespaces and prefixes now shown in flow trace.
Oracle SOA Suite 11g Oracle SOA Suite 12c
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Simplified Upgrade from 11g
Code upgrade from 10g to 11g was extremely painful:
Change from app server (Oracle Application Server 10g to
Oracle WebLogic Server 11g).
Considerable code upgrade and changes required.
New in 12c:
In-place upgrade.
No code or configuration changes needed.
But can’t upgrade from 10g directly.
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MDS Support in OSB
No longer need to have duplicate schemas within OSB
projects.
Can now leverage shared artifacts.
Local Schema Reference: <schema import="xsd/Customer.xsd">
MDS Schema Reference <schema import="oramds:/apps/schemas/customer/Customer.xsd">
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BPEL Subprocesses
A BPEL subprocess enforces best practices and reduces
development time by eliminating the need to re-create the same
activities over and over again.
BPEL subprocesses improve performance by taking up less memory
at runtime (created in memory only once, regardless of number of
invocations).
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Templates
Allow typical patterns to be easily setup and repeated.
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Quick Start Installer
A single JAR installer for the Fusion Middleware stack.
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Lazy Loading
Improves startup times.
Composites are loaded minimally.
Initialization loaded at “first-request” time.
Can be configured at the composite and/or domain level.
Advantages:
No longer need to wait 45-90 minutes for server startup.
Great when requiring speedy disaster recovery.
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Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS)
ESS provides robust scheduling capabilities.
Included in the Oracle SOA Suite 12c license.
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Managed File Transfer (MFT)
Allow for the transfer of large files.
Can be used to send files across sFTP, FTP, etc.
Can be hooked into SOA Suite directly using MFT Adapter.
Neat considerations such as linkage to files.
Separately licensed.
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Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
Improved over 11g.
IE is no longer required.
BAM now supports active-active HA.
Like 11g, included as part of the Oracle SOA Suite 12c license.
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Where have they succeeded?
JDeveloper 12c improvements.
Weblogic Server 12c improvements.
Enterprise Manager (EM) Fusion Middleware Control improvements.
Not a re-architected product.
Existing 11g knowledge still valuable.
Configuration and tuning settings.
Coding and best practices.
Continued improvement among existing 11g functionality.
Cloud Adapters handle varying challenges and restrictions imposed by the different cloud providers.
Mobile/REST/JSON support is a huge plus.
.
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Success in JDeveloper 12c
Appears to boot a lot quicker.
(Could just be using a faster computer.)
.
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Success in JDeveloper 12c (cont.)
Single installation.
No need for extension downloads.
Integrated OSB and SCA development.
.
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Success in JDeveloper 12c (cont.)
Developer Productivity:
Build on Save
Integrated Compliance Testing
.
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Success in JDeveloper 12c (cont.)
Brings more features to developer’s attention.
.
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Success In WebLogic Server 12c
Allows for Auto-Commit
Means don’t need to lock and commit every time a change is
made.
Continuous Recording
Allows chains of commands including ones during an auto-
commit to be recorded.
.
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Success in EM Fusion Middleware Control
Still works!
Enterprise Manager seems a little more friendly.
Visual redesign.
.
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Where have they failed?
JDeveloper 12c issues.
Enterprise Manager (EM) Fusion Middleware Control issues.
Cloud integration are simply just adapters. What’s the big deal?
Too many Oracle SOA products.
.
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Failures in JDeveloper 12c
Unnecessary Bulk
2.9 GB instead of 1.8 GB
.
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Failures in JDeveloper 12c
Indirect flow for downloading JDeveloper 12c.
Requiring download server component.
Stability Issues (12.1.3)
Still crashes easily when files don’t validate correctly.
Creating Tests.
Doesn’t validate some fields
Wizard for Building.
.
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Failures in EM Fusion Middleware Control
Doesn’t allow for testing of REST services in EM Control.
.
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Overwhelming Products
Too many products, too many consoles. OSB Console
WebLogic Console
BAM Composer
MFT Console
B2B UI
SOA Composer
BPM Worklist
EM Console
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Conclusion
Oracle SOA Suite 12c is:
The single product of choice for your integration needs.
A major improvement over 11g.
A solid, complete, and robust product.
Highly recommended for your SOA implementations.
Little re-education for those familiar with 11g.
Would like to see:
Improved unification of consoles, development, and runtime.
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Q&A
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Contact Information
Ahmed Aboulnaga
Technical Director
@Ahmed_Aboulnaga
Harold Dost III
Senior Consultant
@hdost