Service-Oriented Architecture

Recent Articles

Implementing the Enterprise Service Bus Pattern to Expose Database Backed Services [December 2011]
by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema
A real world illustration of how to expose web services to internal consumers.

Lightweight Composite Service Development with SCA and Spring [October 2011]
by Berthold Maier and Nicolas Fonnegra
For software developers and software architects who implement and design service-oriented Spring applications.

Getting Started with Information Integration [September 2011]
by Jason Williamson, Tom Laszewski, and Prakash Nauduri
An excerpt from Oracle Information Integration, Migration, and Consolidation

Event-Driven SOA: Events Meet Services [July 2011]
by Oracle ACE Director Guido Schmutz
Achieve extreme loose coupling within a Service-Oriented Architecture by using event-driven interactions.

Caching Strategies for Oracle Service Bus 11g  [July 2011]
by William Markito Oliveira
The right caching strategy can make a big difference in application performance.

Interoperability Between Oracle WebLogic Server 11g and Microsoft.NET WCF 4.0 Using Secure Web Services, Part 2 [May 2011]
by Juan Carlos (John Charles) Olamendy Turruellas
Learn how to create secure Web services that support interoperability across Oracle and Microsoft technologies.

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Article Series

• The BPEL Cookbook
• Fusion Middleware Patterns
• Oracle SOA Suite High Availability
• SOA Suite Essentials for WLI Users

Whitepapers

Oracle Complex Event Processing High Availability [November 2010]
This whitepaper describes the high availability (HA) solutions available in Oracle CEP 11g Release 1 Patch Set 2 and presents the results of a benchmark study demonstrating the performance of the Oracle CEP HA solutions.

42 Real Life Examples of Oracle Fusion Middleware [October 2010]
Oracle ACE Director Debra Lilley's white paper illustrates that "Fusion Middleware does not have to be an enormous, enterprise project, it can simply be a more modest approach to improve your existing IT estate."

Oracle SCA - The Power of the Composite [August 2010]
Describes the Service Component Architecture (SCA) standard and the SCA capabilities in Oracle SOA Suite 11g, which are aimed squarely at reducing the complexity of developing and deploying today's sophisticated SOA applications.

Architectural Strategies for IT Optimization: From Silos to Clouds [May 2010]
To move forward, organizations need an architectural strategy that can sustain them through the ongoing barrage of new business and operational requirements.

SOA Anti-Patterns: How not to do SOA [January 2010]
Peter Heller provides insight into how to achieve next-generation architecture by applying SOA principles and practices at the enterprise level.

Maximizing SOA Returns with Enterprise Architecture [September 2009]
In order to maximize the returns of SOA in an organization, an enterprise view of services combined with a shared services infrastructure must be implemented.