1. Improved Integration Agility with
Oracle SOA Suite and the Event
Delivery Network
Brad Bukacek Jr | Team Lead

2. 6+ years of integration & J2EE experience
Oracle SOA 11g Certified Expert
Oracle AIA 11g Certified Specialist

3. About Fishbowl Solutions
Experience
• Over 700 projects since founding in 1999
• Oracle “Gold” Partner
• Oracle “Public Sector Pillar Partner”
Expertise
• Portals and Content Management
• Enterprise Information Management
• Business Process Automation
Customer Successes
• Across verticals
Award Winning
• Forrester Groundswell Award - Mobile App
• Oracle Excellence Award
• Enterprise 2.0 Blazer
• 2009 ECM Architect of the Year

4. Leading WebCenter Innovations
WebCenter Mobile WebCenter Portals & Intranets
Google Search Integration 11g Upgrades

5. Fishbowl Consulting Services
+ WebCenter Content
+ Document Management
+ Digital Asset Management
+ Image & Process Management
+ Forms Recognition
+ WebCenter Portal
+ Employee Intranets
+ Vendor or Partner Extranets
+ Customer Portal
+ ADF SOA
+ BPM (business process management)
+ ERP Integrations
+ Installations, Configuration, Performance Tuning, Solution
Design, Development, Implementation
+ Records Management
+ Web Content Management
+ Document Capture
+ Content Consolidation

6. • Let’s talk about SOA
• What is EDN?
• Business Events
• EDN with Oracle SOA Suite 11g
• Architectures
• Uses Cases
• Summary
• Questions

7. What is SOA?
Service-oriented architecture is a technology
architectural model for service-oriented solutions
with distinct characteristics in support of realizing
service-orientation and the strategic goals
associated with service-oriented computing.

8. SOA is a way of organizing applications and
processes in terms of services.

10. We Use SOA… EVERYDAY!

12. Why Move?

13. Business Reasons
• Agility
• Cost

14. IT Reasons
• Agility
• Cost
• Reduce Risk

15. What is EDN?
• Allows loose coupling between SCA
components.
• Abstracted Framework
• Similar to JMS & AQ

16. Advantages
• Loose coupling
– Domains
• Great GUI support for EDN
• Requires minimal coding

17. Event Delivery Network Infrastructure
• Two types of implementations:
– EDN-DB (default)
• Oracle Database
– EDN-JMS
• JMS back-end store
• Supports SCA, ADF, PL/SQL and Java
• Each instance of SOA runs EDN

18. Event Delivery Network Infrastructure
Don’t treat as a Messaging Infrastructure!

19. What are Business Events?
• One-Way, Fire and Forget, Asynchronous
• Can be used in the following situations:
– Dashboard data
– Invoke another Business Process
– Business Activity Monitoring

20. Business Events
• Event Definition Language (EDL)
– XML Schema
• Global Name
• Payload
• Stored in MDS

21. • Published to EDN Infrastructure
• Subscribed to by other service components
• Cannot be unpublished, always exist

22. Levels
• One and Only One
• Guaranteed
• Immediate

23. Connection Types
• Local Event
• Remote

24. Debugging
• Only available on EDN-DB
• SOA_INFRA schema
• Found at:
– http://<host_name>:<port_number>/soa-
infra/events/edn-db-log

26. SCA Example

28. ADF & Java
• Build events and publish via
Java API
• Through Java class
BusinessEventBuilder

29. PL/SQL
• Messages can be published
from PL/SQL
• Using procedure
EDN_PUBLISH_EVENT

30. Uses Cases
• Notification System
– Send notifications to end-users
– Types of Messages:
• Success
• Faults
• Information
– Abstracted & Flexible Design

31. Composite
NotificationMessage
Message
Utility
Service
Notification
Service
EDN

32. • Why this design?
– Easier development
– Reusable services
– Publish from multiple sources
• ADF application
• PL/SQL
• Java

33. • Logging System
– Control different logging levels
– Published directly from SOA service components
• Captured in Oracle Database
– Reporting purposes

34. • Error Handling
– Uses notification system for emails
– Common Error Event EDL
– Used throughout all integrations

35. Testing
• Fusion Middleware
Control
• Right-click soa-infra
and select Business
Events
• Downside: Need to
enter your own xml
message

36. What Not To Do
• Use Case
– Used EDN to persist between service components
– Guaranteed delivery
– At every service call
• Problem:
– SLA was dependent on completing processing in
all subsystems
– Taking over 15 minutes to process 1 message!!

37. • Ultimately, bad design
• Tuning steps:
– Organization was bringing in new database
– Moved to EDN-JMS
• Improved, but still didn’t SLA’s

38. Tips & Tricks
• Create Business Events First!
• Group Business Events by Type In EDL file
• Store in MDS!!

39. Questions?

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41. IOUG Master Class Series Returns
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One Day Interactive Training Events to meet your
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Contact Me
Brad Bukacek Jr.
Team Lead | Fishbowl Solutions
Minneapolis, MN
bbukacek@fishbowlsolutions.com