An Unbiased Look: Oracle SOA Suite 12c

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An Unbiased Look: Oracle SOA Suite 12c
Schoolcraft College – VisTatech Center
Room VT445
November 12, 2014
2:20pm – 3:15pm

© Raastech, Inc. 2014 | All rights reserved. Slide 2 of 70raastech.com
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 Gold Partner & Reseller
 Oracle SOA Specialized
 Certified staff in multiple disciplines
 OCE, OCA, OCP, ITIL, CISSP, PMP, etc.
 Continued contributions to the technology community
 Sponsor and volunteer of numerous users groups
 Ongoing publishing of books, articles, whitepapers, and blogs
 Regular presenters at major conferences

Why Raastech?
 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 Gold Partner – 1 in 4,600 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: Merge divided data into complete data sets.
 Example: Convert XML to SOSL/SOQL.

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?
 Internet of Things (IoT)
Integration
 Machines talking to
Machines
.

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
.

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.
 In SOA Suite 11g, ECIDs are only created by SOA Suite.
 In SOA Suite 12c, both OSB and SCA can create ECIDs.

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 Test of REST services in EM Console.
.

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
 Would like to see:
 Improved unification of consoles, development, and runtime.

Q&A

Contact Information
 Ahmed Aboulnaga
 Technical Director
 @Ahmed_Aboulnaga
 ahmed.aboulnaga@raastech.com
 Harold Dost III
 Senior Consultant
 @hdost
 harold.dost@raastech.com

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