Avoiding Service Call Failures in Oracle Service Bus and Oracle SOA Suite by Rolando Carrasco

May 4, 2018 Leave a comment

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Introduction

This article is targeted at Oracle Service Bus (OSB) developers and architects who want to learn/validate their strategies for avoiding service call failures within their integration pipelines.

Having dual roles as architects and developers the authors have seen many projects in which the developer or the architect didn’t design or implement a good exception/failure management strategy.

This article will streamline a series of strategies to avoid such failures.

Some of the ideas in this article are were originally presented by our colleague David Hernández in a December 2015 session at a Microservices and API Management Symposium in Lima, Peru. That session focused on various strategies for mitigating failures in the development of Services:

  1. Circuit breakers
  2. Bulkheads
  3. Timeouts
  4. Redundancy

In this article we will apply these strategies to Oracle Service Bus.

These strategies can be implemented using OSB and Oracle SOA Suite (composites). Some features of the current latest release (12.2.1) will help you to facilitate the implementation; other strategies are very basic configurations in OSB that many people skip and therefore struggle to maintain stability in their Service Bus implementation.

Let’s always keep in mind that the Service Bus is a core element in any infrastructure that implements it. CIOs and managers sometimes do not give that specific weight to this platform and wonder why, if the OSB/SOA Suite is not available, the infrastructure crashes. Or sometimes they wonder why the OSB struggles when a platform is not available or is under heavy load. The answer is simple: OSB is the integration pipeline within your infrastructure and architecture. Imagine if a water pipeline in your house breaks: you don’t see it, but a real mess is happening behind your walls or beneath the floor. The same idea applies here.

Let’s also bear in mind that 60% of the development of a service is related to exception management and the ability to avoid failures. If we don’t take care of this, or expect that someone else will take care of it, we are wrong. You need to be able to identify the following scenarios: Read the complete article here.

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Unknown's avatarAbout Jürgen Kress
As a middleware expert Jürgen works at Oracle EMEA Alliances and Channels, responsible for Oracle’s EMEA Fusion Middleware partner business. He is the founder of the Oracle SOA & BPM and the WebLogic Partner Communities and the global Oracle Partner Advisory Councils. With more than 5000 members from all over the world the Middleware Partner Community is the most successful and active community at Oracle. Jürgen manages the community with monthly newsletters, webcasts and conferences. He hosts his annual Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forums and the Fusion Middleware Summer Camps, where more than 200 partners get product updates, roadmap insights and hands-on trainings. Supplemented by many web 2.0 tools like twitter, discussion forums, online communities, blogs and wikis. For the SOA & Cloud Symposium by Thomas Erl, Jürgen is a member of the steering board. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences like the SOA & BPM Integration Days, JAX, UKOUG, OUGN, or OOP.

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