With SOA it is different, you have to think about processes; functional and technical. The gap between the functional people and technical people is reduced. Processes are part of the business, otherwise they do not have any reason for existence. While processes are running, the can fail, wait on other process, they finish, started, run in parallel etc. So SOA is a mind shift from the traditional development approach point of view.
Last year Oracle announce the Oracle Application Integration Architecture. This is an add-on on the Oracle SOA Suite, which defines an abstract message layer that can be used to interface various systems; Siebel / SAP / Protal BRM / Cordys via a centralized system (Oracle SOA + AIA). This messages layers are created specific for different industries, for example the telecommunication market.
To start with Oracle SOA here are some of useful links:
Oracle SOA Suite general
- Oracle Application Intergration Architecture
- Oracle Fusion Middleware (functional)
- Oracle Fusion Middleware (technical)
- Oracle SOA Suite
- BPEL
- ESB
- Business Rules
- Business Activity Monitor
- Business Process Analysis
- Oracle SOA Suite
- Oracle JDeveloper
- Oracle AIA Foundation Pack
- Patch set 10.1.3.3.1: 6492514
- Patch set 10.1.3.3.0: 6148874
Oracle Application Integration Architecture
Documentation
- The Administration Guide
- The BPEL Developers Guide
- The ESB Developers Guide
- The Adapters Guide
- The Workflow Guide
- Business Rules User Guide
- Business Rules Reference
- General oracle documentation
- BPEL Correlation
- SOA Suite 10.1.3.3 docs
- SOA Suite 10.1.3.3 New Features
- Best practises 10.1.3.3
- Installation Guide
- ESB Performance patch
- SOA/BPEL patches
- General (Metalink -> Patches -> Advanced -> Product (SOA)BPEL)
API
Tutorials
Oracle Blogs
Oracle Forum
Oracle General
Useful tools
- SoapUI
- XML/XSLT/XPath/XQuery
- Test Online XPath (1)
- Test Online XPath (2)
- Business Process Modeling Notation (pdf)
- BPMN Visio Stencil (zip)
