Workshop: Oracle FMW Administration Foundation – SOA & OSB by Michel Schildmeijer

Learn the latest about Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Foundation, SOA Suite, and Oracle Service Bus infrastructure management. Oracle Ace Michel Schildmeijer tells all during a two-day workshop in January. Enrich your knowledge and learn all about the various layers and engines that together make up the SOA and OSB Engine (and more). In-company, or at the Qualogy offices in Rijswijk.

The workshop is a two-day event, and is suitable for Senior Administrators with at least one year’s experience with SOA/OSB, developers with an ops focus, as well as other interested parties.

Admin Interfaces: consoles, command line, JMX

The workshop will cover admin interfaces in greater detail, such as consoles, command line and JMX:

• SOA Suite and OSB Configuration
• Security & OWSM Policy Configuration
• Oracle Platform Security Services
• Store Framework Credentials
• Oracle FMW user, group and role management

SOA Suite and OSB: Life-cycle management

The workshop will also cover life-cycle management of SOA Suite and OSB applications: Learn more about the workshop here.

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SOA 12c Migration by Matt Wright

Most organizations when migrating to Oracle SOA 12c or Oracle BPM 12s choose to perform a side-by-side upgrade, as it:

• requires zero downtime,
• supports all SOA and BPM components,
• allows for a phased migration,
• involves significantly less risk.

This involves provisioning a new instance of SOA 12c, replicating the configurations from your 11g platform and migrating and deploying your code. Once ready, you then switch over from 11g to 12c.

Most organizations fail to maintain accurate documentation of their current 11g configurations, so have to manually reverse engineer their existing 11g production configurations, so they can be re-applied to their new 12c environments. This is both a time consuming and error prone approach.

Rubicon Red MyST provides a simple and automated process for side-by-side upgrades. MyST allows you to introspect an existing 11g environment, extract the key configuration information and then use this to automatically provision an equivalent 12c environment in minutes.

Side-By-Side Upgrades made Simple

When performing a side-by-side upgrade, you simply point MyST at an existing 11g environment, MyST will introspect the platform instance and create a corresponding 11g Platform Blueprint.

Next, just specify the Oracle Middleware 12c version required. MyST will automatically convert the blueprint to one that is compliant with the Oracle Enterprise Deployment Guide for SOA 12c, whilst preserving your 11g configurations.

Finally, specify the target environment(s), for the new SOA 12c domain. Then at the click of a button, MyST will automatically provision an equivalent 12c Oracle Middleware platform.

The end-to-end process consists of three simple steps and can be performed in minutes.

Step 1 – Introspect SOA / BPM 11gR1 Domain

For the purpose of this blog, we are going to introspect an existing Oracle SOA 11.1.1.7 environment running on two VMs, that consists of a 2 node SOA Cluster and 2 node OSB Cluster. Read the complete article here.

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WS Security – enabling passwordDigest authentication in an Oracle FMW environment by Jang Vijay Singh

Objective:

To have a basic level of authentication on web services (especially where there’s no transport layer security) without having to pass clear text passwords in the WS Security headers.

Background:

The concepts are fairly generic but this post is highly Oracle Fusion middleware/SOA Suite specific. There can be complex decision tree (see [1]) involved when selecting the ‘appropriate’ level of security for any system. As security involves trade-offs between cost, performance, usability and other variables, the ‘appropriate’ level of security could be highly specific to the environment, usecase, system and people. But as developers, we can still perform some due diligence based on the tools and knowledge available to us. 

My rule of thumb when developing a traditional web service or microservice is: If it’s reading from a secure database or some system that is accessible only via authentication, it must only expose a secure endpoint.

Now sites can differ considerably and so does the definition of what "secure" is.

When exposing ah http endpoint (SOAP or REST) hosted on cloud or accessible over the Internet, one would as a minimum ensure that it’s over TLS and has authentication enabled.

In an on-premise hosted solution, traditionally https has not been widespread within organisations and web service endpoints meant for internal consumption have most commonly only been exposed over http – hopefully accompanied by infrastructure level setup (firewalls, DMZs etc.) that ensures that the data or service is only accessible inside a ‘trusted’ network. Read the complete article here.

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