Oracle Service Bus 12c: New Features Ed 1

COURSE TOPICS

Module 1: Overview

• Context of Service Bus within SOA Suite 12c
• Differences between 11g and 12c installation
• Overview of course lessons and topics
• Overview of Service Bus development and adminstration tools

Module 2: Quick Start for Developers

• Leveraging the Quick Start Installer for 12c
• Starting JDeveloper
• Configuring Integrated and Stand-Alone domains
• Creating Application Server connections

Module 3: Getting Familiar with SB 12c & JDeveloper

• Understanding the 12c topology and architecture
• Using JDeveloper to create SB Projects
• Using the Service Bus Test console
• Introduction to Pipeline Message Flow Component
• Leveraging the new Dependency Explorer
• Configuring and using the new File-based design-time MDS repository

Module 4: Service Bus Administration & Management Tools

• Using the new Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control for monitoring Service Bus projects and resources
• Understanding unique and overlapping capabilites between the Service Bus Console and the EM FMW Control
• Using the new Service Bus Console
• Understanding session management
• New Service Bus security roles for 12c
• Persistence contexts and persistence units
• Create, read, update and delete operations with JPA
• Entities and the entity manager
• Object-relational mapping
• Create typed queries in JPA with JPQL

Module 5: Shared Variables, Pipelines and Templates

• Creating and using Pipeline Message Flow components
• Creating and using user-defined shared context variable across multiple pipeline components
• Creating and using the new Pipeline Template
• Unlinking tempate-based Pipeline components
• Using the built-in validation constraints
• JPA lifecycle phases where validation takes place
• Using validation groups
• Programmatic validation by injecting a Validator
• Creating a custom bean validation constraint
• What is Bean Validation?

Module 6: Monitoring, SLA Alerts and Reports

• Creating alert destinations
• Defining SLAs with EM FMW Control
• Viewing reports with EM FMW Control
• Monitoring service metrics with EM FMW Control
• Jobs, steps and chunks
• Programmatic and automatic timers
• What are timer services?
• Batch examples
• What is Batch processing?

Module 7: Testing and Debugging

• Configuring and leveraging the new Oracle Diagnostic Log for troubleshooting and debugging
• Enabling and disabling message flow stages and actions
• Exploring the Test console options in JDeveloper
• Using the new Service Bus 12c debugger tool in JDeveloper
• Authentication, authorization and confidentiality
• Creating users and groups and mapping them to roles
• Defining possible web service attack vectors
• Apply Java EE security using deployment descriptors

Module 8: Message Transformations

• Transforming messages with the new XSLT Mapper tool
• Creating XQuery transformations with JDeveloper
• Creating nXSD transformations with the Native Format Builder wizard
• Using the new nXSD Translate action in message flows

Module 9:Adapters & Transports

• Understanding JCA adpaters and SB transports
• Using the SOA-DIRECT transport with SOA composite application services
• Creating REST-ful proxy services using the new REST binding wizard
• Virtulizing external REST-ful services using the new REST binding wizard