When you use this book, it is expected that you understand the concepts of XML, XLST, WSDL, WebServices, JMS and SOAP and basic knowledge of SQL. This is not explained in the book. Which is a advantage! Refer to the w3schools for such things.
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Some subjects I miss in the book; best practice on execption handing, throtteling, deployment.
The examples in the book are based Oracle Service Bus patch set #3, but can also be used on top of patch set #4. This release is already available since august 2010. Why didn't' the authors use this version? I expect that the examples in the book can also be applied on the upcoming patch set release #5.
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Hi Marc
Thanks for your review of our book!
We did not cover throttling, deployment as well as things like service load balancing and monitoring (SLA) on purpose.
At the beginning we wanted to write an OSB cookbook for all the roles involved when using the OSB. In the initial outline we had throttling, load balancing and deployment covered.
But after about 2 months of writing, we decided to target only developers, as we had to limit ourselves to not more than 550 pages, which I guess is a good size for such a book.
Therefore we decided to concentrate on the real development stuff. Of course this is not that clear with throttling/service load balancing, but the plan is to maybe cover that in an OSB Admin cookbook ;-)
Exception Handling is really a missing piece, we discussed it, but due to space reason we had to skip it. This is something to be added in a 2nd release for sure.
Regarding the use of patchset 3 for the book. The reason for that is that we started with the book just a few weeks before patchset 4 was released. And we decided to stay with pachtset 3, because we knew that there is not such a huge difference on the OSB side between patchset 3 and 4. So I don't expect to see a lot of changes, just some screenshot might be slightly different between patchset 3 and 4. I just think it's important to be consistent with all recipes, and that's the case.
Thanks again for reviewing the book!
Guido Schmutz
I bought the OSB Cookbook (pdf) from Packt Publishing, yesterday (3/7/2013). However, the source code zip file corrupted. http://www.packtpub.com/code_download/xxx4 (I masked the first 3 digits). The zip file downloaded from this location is corrupted. I sent numerous mails to customercare@packtpub.com and I have received no response from them. Please help me.
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