An Unbiased Look: Oracle SOA Suite 12c

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An Unbiased Look: Oracle SOA Suite 12 c

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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
[email protected]
Harold Dost III
Senior Consultant
@hdost
[email protected]