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

.


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


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


What is Integration?

Integration involves…

…connecting disparate applications.

…moving messages.

…quickly, reliably, and securely.


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


Why Oracle SOA Suite?

Oracle SOA Suite provides a complete, open, integrated, and best of

breed solution that supports all middleware and integration needs.


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


Why Oracle SOA Suite?

Simpler and faster drag-and-drop development.


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)


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.


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


SOA Integration

Can develop using BPEL, Mediator, and/or OSB, to easily perform

abstraction, transformation, routing, and orchestration.

Flat File


SOA Integration



<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>


SOA Integration




SOA Integration



Web Service

Create Customer

Web Service

Query Inventory

Web Service

Create Order

Web Service

Process Payment


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

.


Expected and Supported Capabilities

Monitoring

BAM and Sensors

Tracing Transactions

Instance Flows

Administration

Message Recovery

Design Patterns

Synchronous, Asynchronous, Human Workflow, etc.

.


Focus Areas

Notable additions to Oracle SOA Suite 12c:

Mobile Integration

Cloud Integration

Internet of Things (IoT) Integration

.


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.


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


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.

.


Cloud Adapter Framework

Two Halves

Design Time

Run Time

.


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


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?

.


LDAP Adapter

Provides CRUD access and polling to LDAP from SCA,

OSB, and other deployed applications.

.


LDAP Adapter

Configurable like any other Adapter, allowing for JNDI to

be used.

.


LDAP Adapter

Like the Database Adapter, the

wizard requires a live server for

initial setup.

.


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.


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.


Maven for Dependency Management

Well supported dependency management framework

Use to generate projects

Perform tests

Integrated into JDeveloper

.



Doesn’t appear to be fully documented yet…

.



Helpful link:

http://bit.ly/ORCLMVN

Oracle’s Maven

repository:

http://maven.oracle.com

.




http://maven.oracle.com/


Greater Support for Testing

Testing of BPEL internals from Composite Tests.

.


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.


Full SOAP Message in Instance Trace

Namespaces and prefixes now shown in flow trace.

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Oracle SOA Suite 12c


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.


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">


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).


Templates

Allow typical patterns to be easily setup and repeated.


Quick Start Installer

A single JAR installer for the Fusion Middleware stack.


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.


Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS)

ESS provides robust scheduling capabilities.

Included in the Oracle SOA Suite 12c license.


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.


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.


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.

.


Success in JDeveloper 12c

Appears to boot a lot quicker.

(Could just be using a faster computer.)

.


Success in JDeveloper 12c (cont.)

Single installation.

No need for extension downloads.

Integrated OSB and SCA development.

.



Developer Productivity:

Build on Save

Integrated Compliance Testing

.



Brings more features to developer’s attention.

.


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.

.


Success in EM Fusion Middleware Control

Still works!

Enterprise Manager seems a little more friendly.

Visual redesign.

.


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.

.


Failures in JDeveloper 12c

Unnecessary Bulk

2.9 GB instead of 1.8 GB

.


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.

.


Failures in EM Fusion Middleware Control

Doesn’t allow for testing of REST services in EM Control.

.


Overwhelming Products

Too many products, too many consoles. OSB Console

WebLogic Console

BAM Composer

MFT Console

B2B UI

SOA Composer

BPM Worklist

EM Console


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.


Q&A


Contact Information

Ahmed Aboulnaga

Technical Director

@Ahmed_Aboulnaga

[email protected]

Harold Dost III

Senior Consultant

@hdost

[email protected]

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