This document outlines the course content for Oracle SOA and OSB, including introductions to concepts like service-oriented architecture, building blocks of SOA like XML and WSDL, installations of SOA servers, interaction patterns in SOA, SCA architecture, building and deploying SOA composites with BPEL, synchronous and asynchronous services, parallel processing, mediators, human workflow, business rules, fault handling, OSB, security, and transaction management. It also lists many hands-on practices and examples that will be covered related to these topics.

1. Oracle SOA and OSB Course Content
 Introduction to Oracle SOA Suite 11g.
 Overview of service-oriented architecture (SOA).
 Advantage of using SOA.
 Why is SOA 11g Important?
 Building Blocks Of SOA.
 Overview XML, XSD, WSDL.
 Practice
 Creating XSDs
 Creating WSDL
 Exposing XSD using WSDL.
 Consuming Services in Java.
 Creating of WSDL files.
Installations
 Overview of weblogic server
 Overview of SOA server, OSB Server and bam server and meta data schemas
 Creating domain in weblogic server.
 Install SOA Server, OSB Server and BAM server.
 Overview of start and stop steps of SOA/OSB server and Admin Server.
Interaction Patterns
 Synchronous Pattern
 Asynchronous pattern (Delayed response)
 One way Invoke (fire and forget model).
SCA Architecture
 Define a composite application
 Describe SOA Composite Editor
 Explain Component Type File.
SOA Composite Build and Deploy
 Explain SOA composite.
 Practice
 Understand BPEL designer (JDeveloper) and activities
 Creating your first BPEL Process.

2.  XPATH Expression Builder
 Deploying the SOA Composite application.
 Compilation
 Creating connection Application Server
 Versioning
 Deployment
 Managing Deployments/Un-Deployments with Enterprise Manager 11g .
Build of Synchronous and Asynchronous Services
 Orchestrating Services with BPEL for Synchronous , Asynchronous and One-way Service
 Overview of Partner Link. Why do we need my Role-Partner Role concept
 Practice
 Create a synchronous process
 Create an asynchronous process
 Create One-way.
Parallel processing and Conditional branching
 Understanding activities Switch, Flow, ForEach and While
 Practice
 Processing with Parallel Flows
 Using Flown activity
 Conditional Branching.
Exploring Pick activity and OnAlarm branch
 Develop BPEL process to use pick(Receive inputs from Multiple Operations)
 Develop BPEL process that can time out a call to an Async processing, using OnAlarm
branch.
Adapters Concepts
 Understanding File, Database, FTP, AQ, Web Service and JMS Adapter
 Practice
 Read, Sync Read and write a file using file and FTP adapter
 Various Database operations using DB adapter
a. CRUD operations on Table
b. Procedure/function creation in DB and calling using DB Adapter
c. Writing own SQL queries in DB Adapter
 Produce, Consume, and Request/Reply operations in JMS adapter.
 Advanced queuing on Database using AQ Adapter

3. Mediators
 Working with Mediator Components
 Explain the Mediator component and its features
 Differences between Mediator and OSB
 Parallel Flows and sequential flows.
 Practice
 Creating a Mediator Component
 Adding Routing Rules
 Create XSL Transformation with XSLT Mapper
 Create Content Based Routing Filters.
Human Workflow and work list application
 Human Workflow Service Concepts
 Features of workflow service
 Practice
 Sending an notification to user.
 Creating User/Groups/Roles in Console and EM.
 Group/User/Role base notifications.
 sequential and parallel processing in Human Task
 Rule base routing.
Business Rules
 Introduction to Business Rules
 Introduction Decision tables
 Practice
 Using Business Rules and Decision tables in BPEL
 Rule dictionary
 Rule linking
Fault Handling and Exception Management
 Explain Fault Types
 System Faults
 Business faults
 Process based Fault handling.
 Policy based fault handling.
 Practice
 Using Throw activity to raise faults
 Using Re-Throw activity to re-raise the faults
 Using fault Handler to handler faults

4.  Compensation handler
 Using policy files
OSB (Oracle Service Bus)
 Introduction to OSB
 Create OSB Project
 Understanding Proxy Service
 Understanding Business Service
 Understanding of different activities, predefined variables
 Creating Proxy Service for a File Transport, DB Transport, JMS Transport, FTP Transport
 Demonstrate Split Join usage
 Examples on Message Throttling, Service Pooling and Service Virtualization.
 Implementing security
 Error Handling
 Understanding of Error Handling
 Practice
a) Examples on applying Error Handling various Levels
 Writing XQuery functions in OSB.
 Implementing XSLT, XQuery in OSB
 Calling OSB Service in BPEL.
 Practice
 Pass-through Proxy Service Example
 Proxy Service and business service communication using XQuey and XSLT
 Examples on Operational Branching and Conditional Branching.
 Examples on Publish, Publish Table and Dynamic Publish.
 Examples on Service Callout, Java Callout.
 Examples on Routing, Routing Table, Dynamic Routing.
 Example on Split Join.
 Examples on different transports like DB, FILE, FTP, JMS.
 Examples on Security and Transaction Management.
 Examples on Message Throttling, Service Pooling and Service
virtualization.
 Examples on XQuery functions.
Security in SOA/OSB
 Introduction on security
 Applying Security policies on Services and components
 creating user defined policies and applying those on Services and Components

5.  Examples on Above all the Scenarios
Transaction Management in SOA/OSB
 BPEL level Transactions
 Component Level Transaction
 DB Transaction
 Service Level Transaction.