Course objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the fundamental concepts of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Describe the key components of Oracle SOA Suite, including BPEL, Mediator, Business Rules, and Human Workflow
- Design and develop SOA composite applications using Oracle JDeveloper
- Deploy and manage SOA applications in an Oracle SOA Suite environment
- Troubleshoot and monitor SOA applications
Course outlines
- Module 1: Introduction to SOA
- What is SOA?
- Core principles of SOA
- Benefits of SOA
- SOA vs. traditional integration approaches
- Module 2: Oracle SOA Suite Overview
- Key components of Oracle SOA Suite
- SOA Suite architecture
- Oracle JDeveloper as the development environment
- Module 3: BPEL Process Design
- BPEL process engine
- Creating and configuring BPEL processes
- Using BPEL activities (Scope, Sequence, Flow, etc.)
- Handling faults and exceptions
- Asynchronous and synchronous processes
- Module 4: Mediator Component
- Mediator component overview
- Routing messages based on content
- Transforming messages using XSLT
- Enriching messages with data from other services
- Module 5: Business Rules
- Business Rules Engine overview
- Creating and managing business rules
- Integrating business rules into SOA composites
- Module 6: Human Workflow
- Human Workflow Service Engine overview
- Designing and configuring human workflows
- Assigning tasks to users
- Tracking and managing workflow instances
- Module 7: SOA Composite Assembly
- Assembling SOA composites using Oracle JDeveloper
- Configuring data sources and connections
- Testing and debugging SOA composites
- Module 8: Deploying and Managing SOA Applications
- Deploying SOA applications to Oracle SOA Suite
- Monitoring and managing SOA applications
- Troubleshooting SOA applications
- Module 9: Advanced Topics (Optional)
- Security in SOA Suite
- Performance tuning
- High availability and disaster recovery
- By the end of this course, participants will have a solid foundation in Oracle SOA Suite and be able to apply their knowledge to real-world integration scenarios.