The document discusses best practices for using the Oracle Service Bus (OSB). It provides an overview of the OSB and how it relates to the Oracle SOA Suite. It then describes appropriate uses of the OSB for high volume, stateless integrations and mediation scenarios. It outlines how to leverage features like caching, load balancing, security, transformations, throttling, and routing. The document concludes by describing some bad practices to avoid, such as overusing Java or complex orchestrations in the OSB.

1. WHERE TO USE THE
ORACLE SERVICE BUS ?
OBUG Connect
24 April 2012 @ MECC Maastricht

2. Who ?
Jan van Zoggel Edwin Biemond
jvzoggel.wordpress.com biemond.blogspot.com
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3. Agenda
 Overview
 OSB & SOA Suite
 Using the OSB
 Bad Practices
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4. Enterprise Service Bus
An ESB on its own is not a complete SOA
solution, even though it is often marketed
that way.
Gartner/Burton Group 2007
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5. How to use the OSB ?
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7. Agenda
 Overview
 OSB & SOA Suite
 Using the OSB
 Bad Practices
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8. Finance domain CRM domain
Load balancing
OSB Throthling OSB
Dyn. Routing
SLA / Endpoint
Mediator Mediator
intercomposite Mediator
BR BPEL Mediator BPEL
BPEL
Mediator Mediator
Mediator Mediator
OSB SB Transports OSB
OSB OSB
BizApi WS
FIN Application CRM Application
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9. Where to use Mediator ?
 Loosely coupling of Oracle BPEL
 Intra composite
 EDN
 Multi routing
 Specific features:
 MDS usage
 Domain Value mapping
 Xref (cross referencing ) support
 Synchronous / Asynchronous Routing
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10. Where to use Oracle BPEL ?
 Stateful
 Long running processes (dehydration store)
 Service Orchestration
 Compensation
 Fault framework
 Business Rules & Human workflow
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11. Async Service in OSB
 10g BPEL transport
 11g SOA-direct transport
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12. Agenda
 Overview
 OSB & SOA Suite
 Using the OSB
 Bad Practices
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13. Using the OSB ?
 High volume*  Caching
 Stateless*  Load balancing
 Security  Endpoint SLA
 Transformation  Transports
 Throttling  Routing
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14. Security
 Use OWSM for 11g & 12c
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15. Transformation
 XQuery
 XSLT support
 Java callout support for JSON, JEJB transport
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16. Control the workload
Throttling
 Limit requests on Business Service
 Uses memory Queue, no failover
 priority possible
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17. Control the workload
Work Managers
 Protect WebLogic Server (Max Threads)
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18. Caching
 Based on Oracle Coherence
 Protect back-end from heavy load
 Configurable time-to-live
 Uses Cache Token Expression
 e.g. fn:data($body/s01:getEmployee/EmpID)
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19. Load Balancing
 Multiple load balancing algorithms
 Endpoint management:
 Supports service pooling
 Automatic URI elimination
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20. Endpoint SLA
 Alert Rules
 Overview
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21. Transports
 OSB transports > JCA transports
 Database + AQ use JCA -> JDeveloper
 File JCA reads chunks (large files)
 JEJB transport (java object over the bus)
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22. Text Processing
 MFL will disappear
 Use Native Format Builder of Oracle SOA Suite
 Use Oracle B2B (part of SOA Suite) for EDI,
HL7, RosettaNet, etc
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23. Routing
 Using Dynamic Routing
 Transport type must be the same
 Mediator: dynamic with business rules
+ interface must be the same
 Routing based on message content & headers (
performance )
 Mediator: only message content
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24. Enrichment
 Use the Service Callout
 Mediator: almost impossible
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25. Publish
 Fire-and-Forget messages (1 way)
 Logging / Audit
 Publish to local JMS
 Minimize message loss
 Prevent failure
 Offload with Store-and-Forward
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26. Validate
 Use Validate action early in proxy (stage)
 Prevent transformation errors
 Prevent invalid information to back-end
 Basic XML schema validation
 No schematron support
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27. Error handling
 Default the request $body returned (echo)
 Stage, Pipelines, Route & System
 $fault in OSB is no valid SOAP Fault
 Best Practice:
 define Error handling strategy
 define <soap:Fault> mapping
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28. Agenda
 Overview
 OSB & SOA Suite
 Using the OSB
 Bad Practices
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29. Bad practice I - Datamodel
Same WSDL
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30. Bad practice II - Orchestration
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31. Bad practice III – execute-SQL
fn-bea:execute-sql($datasrc, $rowElemName, $sql, $param1-n)
• Officially only retrieve (select), but …
• Designed for simple lookup (name value pair)
• Risk: bad SQL fired at database
• Increasing rows resultset => bad performance
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32. Bad practice IV – Java galore
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33. Bad practice V – Complexity
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34. Conclusion
An ESB on its own is not a complete SOA
solution, even though it is often marketed
that way.
Gartner/Burton Group 2007
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35. Questions
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36. Shameless plug
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