Getting Started with Oracle SOA B2B Integration: A Hands-On Tutorial

Krishnaprem Bhatia and Alan Perlovsky and Scott Haaland published their b2b book, with the highlights:

  • Getting Started with Oracle SOA B2B Integration: A Hands-On TutorialDesign, implement and monitor B2B transactions quickly using this clear, detailed and practical guide
  • Wide coverage and detailed discussion of Oracle B2B functionality and features for the new and advanced users
  • Full of practical examples, illustrations and product screenshots explained with clear, step-by-step instructions

Enterprises engaging in B2B communications with their trading partners are facing increased pressure to increase automation and reduce costs. Increased compliance requirements and globalization of economies is fueling B2B adoption in every industry. Gateway solutions in Oracle SOA B2B enable these enterprises to connect easily with external trading partners.

Getting Started with Oracle SOA B2B Integration: A Hands-On Tutorial will show you how to use Oracle B2B platform to extend your current business processes to connect with your external trading partners in an automated, secure fashion, using industry standard B2B protocols. It will show you how to set up documents, partners and agreements and manage your B2B transactions end-to-end, all the way from application to trading partners and vice versa.

Starting with an introduction to the B2B industry you then be introduced to Oracle B2B and SOA platforms. You will then begin creat document definitions and get you started with trading partner management. Once you have a solid grounding you will then be taken into the more complex topic of SOA. Integration, reporting, and monitoring will all be covered in detail.

Then you will be shown how to secure your B2B distribution, security is an essential part of all businesses and B2B is no different. Finally you will be introduced to advanced topics that should give you the skills and knowledge to easily go out and do all of this again with next to no guidance.

Utilizing the combined experienced of one of the most knowledgeable Oracle B2B author teams assembled this step-by-step practical guide provides you with the essential information required to implement Oracle B2B solutions including multiple hands-on tutorials that will help you get up and running quickly. The book is available from Packt. Looking for additional SOA books or BPM books or you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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Cloud Integration & SOA Governance & Fast Data & API Management Resource kits available

Do you want to learn more about the hot topics in SOA? Make sure you access:

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Advanced Oracle BPM in 21 Days book by EAIESB

pictureThis book address all latest features included in PS6.

  • BPM Composer
  • Case Management
  • Guided Business Process Management
  • Web Forms
  • Player
  • Simulation
  • Process Analytics

Looking for additional BPM books or SOA books or you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning CookbookOracle SOA Suite 11g forms the heart of many organisations’ Service Oriented Architecture. Yet for such a core component, simple information on how to tune and configure SOA Suite and its infrastructure is hard to find. Because Oracle SOA Suite 11g builds on top of a variety of infrastructure components, up until now there has been no one single complete reference that brings together all the best practices for tuning the whole SOA stack.

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook contains plenty of tips and tricks to help you get the best performance from your SOA Suite infrastructure. From monitoring your environment so you know where bottlenecks are, to tuning the Java Virtual Machine, WebLogic Application Server, and BPEL and BPMN mediator engines, this book will give you the techniques you need in a easy to follow step-by-step guide.

Starting with how to identify problems, and building on that with sections on monitoring, testing, and tuning, the recipes in this book will take you through many of the options available for performance tuning your application.

There are many considerations to make when trying to get the best performance out of the Oracle SOA Suite platform. This performance Cookbook will teach you the whole process of tuning JVM garbage collection and memory, tuning BPEL and BPMN persistence settings, and tuning the application server. This book focuses on bringing together tips on how to identify the key bottlenecks in the whole SOA Suite infrastructure, and how to alleviate them.

The Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook will ensure that you have the tools and techniques to get the most out of your infrastructure, delivering reliable, fast, and scalable services to your enterprise.

Looking for additional SOA books or if you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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SOA & Cloud Integration Marketing Kit available

We are very interested to run joint marketing events jointly with you are partners! At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find a new marketing kit: Integration Success Workshop. This event is designed with an aim at increasing IT/developer confidence in order to increase adoption especially with SOA/BPM products. This event is technical and hands-on and is designed to be to a few types of audience classifications – all who are highly technical and are at the practitioner-level:

  • Existing customers who may be tempted by open source, other competition because they think our products are hard to use, too complex, and don’t meet new use cases.
  • Existing customers who may already have some understanding or familiarity with the SOA/BPM products but want to learn how to build out more modern SOA/BPM deployments via Cloud/Mobile.
  • New customers who are interested to learn firsthand some of the new breakthrough capabilities in Cloud and Mobile.

Themes of this event are centered on Cloud Integration, Mobile Integration, and Continuous Integration. Modules will be delivered on specific themes, and are designed enable a conversation with customers about each theme and how SOA / BPM can solve key challenges within that theme (e.g. Extending Applications to Mobile Devices). Access the event kit here.

Support marketing campaigns

We can support such events by:

  • Oracle speakers – contact your partner manager
  • Marketing budget – contact your A&C marketing manager
  • Event location – free use of Oracle Customer Visitor Centers conference rooms
  • Promote your event at events.oracle.com: http://tinyurl.com/eventspecialized
  • E-Blast: invite customers to your event – contact your A&C marketing manager

For additional marketing kits e.g for BPM please visit our SOA Community Workspace

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Poster: Adaptive Case Management (ACM) in Practice

Knowledge-driven processes are typically unpredictable in their execution. Experts working on them decide what’s the next best action to take. This is in contrast to traditional BPM, in which all possible paths of a process are predetermined and modeled into the process. Case management is a way to control and implement these unstructured processes. With the poster below we’d like to bring some of the key aspects of Adaptive Case Management (ACM) on one page.

Feel free to download the PDF-version if you are interested in (login required):

  • What is ACM?
  • Why should I use ACM?
  • How can ACM user interfaces look like?
  • What are the main building blocks of an ACM solution?
  • How to visualize ACM cases with CMMN 1.0? 

Send your feedback via twitter with #acmposter:


Jürgen Kress
twitter.com/soacommunity

Berthold Maier
twitter.com/bmaier

Hajo Normann
twitter.com/HajoNormann

Danilo Schmiedel
twitter.com/dschmied

Guido Schmutz
twitter.com/gschmutz

Bernd Trops
twitter.com/berndtrops

Clemens Utschig-Utschig

Torsten Winterberg
twitter.com/t_winterberg

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Securing the SOA Landscape part of Industrial SOA series

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Security requirements are usually relatively easy to manage when using local restrictions in conventional closed systems. They become more complex in the distributed system landscape of an SOA. Not limited to only an application or an application domain anymore, security must work across a range of applications and business processes.

Numerous security standards have been created in order to realize these comprehensive security requirements. These include WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Trust, XML Encryption, XKMS, XML Signature, WS-Federation, WS-SecureConversation, SAML1, SAML2, and many more. Currently, no product or open source framework can fully support all of these standards. In our experience, incompatibilities arise whenever an SOA product or deployed Web service framework needs to communicate outside of its small ecosystem.

Not surprisingly, project managers who are confronted with increasing expenses tend to start looking for viable alternatives. They then usually choose to develop inflexible solutions in-house that can quickly implement risky anti-patterns, such as transferring usernames and passwords within the functional payload. The variety of different standards makes it difficult to formulate a clear understanding of the available security standards and internal product dependencies, in light of the individual restrictions to designing a well-secured system.

Our aim is to provide IT experts and SOA architects with tips on how to handle security responsibly, using tried and true best practices as a basis.

How Much Security Do I Need?

Security plays a crucial role due to SOA’s extensively networked nature, yet is not required by all of the different types of applications and architecture layers to the same degree. Defining both internal and external security requirements for the entire organization and its individual departments by conceptually developing the implementation is therefore important.

Read the full article at the Service Technology Magazine or Oracle Technology Network.

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SOA, Cloud + Service Technology Symposium call for presentations

The 6th International SOA, Cloud + Service Technology Symposium is scheduled to take place in Mexico City, Mexico on November 5-6, 2013. This year’s event will attract speakers, keynotes, authors and industry experts from around the world to foster the sharing of knowledge and know-how in the ever-broadening service technology fields. Topic areas will include Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Big Data, Contemporary Virtualization, Capacity Planning, Semantic Web, and many more. Tracks and preliminary agenda information will be published soon. Be sure to stay informed of the many upcoming news items and announcements by connecting to the Symposium’s Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn Group accounts.

Call for Presentations
The call for presentation is open, make sure you submit your success story about Oracle SOA Suite, BPM Suite, ACM, SOA Governance, b2b, adapters and cloud computing papers.  Any interesting customer success story and the lessons learned from these implementations is highly welcome. Also presentations about latest hot topics like API management, big & fast data, BPM & ACM are highly welcome!

If you want to learn more about the conference and sponsorship opportunities please visit the website http://www.servicetechsymposium.com/

Presentation proposals should be submitted by filling out the speaker form and sending the completed form to call@servicetechsymposium.com. To download the speaker form, please click here: Download the Symposium Speaker Form.

For additional call for papers please visit our wiki!

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Sales Kits for SOA & BPM – Oracle Partners FY14

We want that you are aligned with the Oracle sales team and prepared like the Oracle sales team. Therefore please take some time to read & use the sales material at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required): OFM partner sales plays FY14.pptx & Oracle Fusion Middleware Customer Reference Booklet.pdf.

SOA BPM
Sales play · Integration partner sales plays FY14.pptx · BPM partner sales plays FY14.pptx
Cheat sheet · Cheat Sheet Application Integration FY14.pdf

· Cheat Sheet Mobile Integration FY14.pdf

· Cheat Sheet BPM for Adaptive Case Management FY14.pdf

· Cheat Sheet BPM for Business Driven Process Optimization FY14.pdf

· Cheat Sheet BPM for Process Driven Application Extension FY14.pdf

Customer presentation · SOA-11g-CVC-latest.pptx · Adaptive Case Management.pptx

· Business Driven Process Optimization.pptx

· Process Driven Application Extension.pptx

Marketing Kit · Event Kit – Integration Success Workshop FY14.zip · BPM Event Partner Kit

Please do use this material in the spirit of our partnership!

 

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SOA Community Newsletter September 2013

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

Are you ready for Oracle Open World 2013? Make sure you book your SOA & BPM sessions, visit the demo points and hands on session. All details are posted in the SOA OOW agenda & BPM OOW agenda. Our OOW 2013 Community Reception is almost booked out, if you want to attend, register today.

 

Did you miss the super successful OFM Summer Camps III? Thanks to the community for all the feedback & tweets #OFMSummercamp. We posted the SOA Governance and b2b & adapters training material at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required).

In addition to this we offer different middleware training roadshows for BPM & ADF & WebLogic across Europe make sure you sign-up for: ADF & ADF Mobile or BPM Suite or WebLogic Suite.

Why is Specialization important for Oracle middleware customer? And how can you benefit as a partner from Specialization? As a Specialized partner you proofed your middleware skills and success, therefore we are very interested to duplicate this success. Make sure that you make use of our join marketing kits like the new Fast Data Executive Round Table event kit. As part of the sales process, as a Specialized partner, you can also use the Oracle demo system.

We continue our Industrial SOA series with an article about Understanding Service Compensation. On the SOA side our product managed published a best practice deployment white paper and our partner C2B2 host a Performance & Scalability Webcast on September 19th. Within SOA cloud integration continues to raise, make sure you watch the cloud integration samples from Rajesh Raheja.

Thanks to the community for the MDS, OSB JMS Deployments Utility, BAM Deep Dive and SOA Governance Resource articles and materials.

In our BPM & ACRM section we continue to highlight the importance of process Process Accelerators to demo and jump start a BPM project. Thanks to Jan Zoggel for the blog posts about Force dehydration in BPM (do you remember from SOA?) and Debugging BPM. If you work on an BPM project, make sure you read these Oracle BPM 11g books. Let us know if you write one, feel free to add yours to our publications wiki!

What is Adaptive Case Management (ACM)? Watch the webcast with Bruce Silver on-demand. Please feel free to let us know if you work on an ACM opportunity, we will make sure that you get product management support.

All partners who work on Oracle Applications, make sure you participate in the AppAdvantage IT Leader Program. Fusion Middleware is the base for Oracle Fusion Applications – therefore it is key that you become trained in Fusion Middleware to customize, extend, integrate Oracle Applications.

See you in San Francisco at our Community Reception.

Jürgen Kress

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