Davies J., Schorow D., Ray S., Rieber D. The Definitive Guide to SOA: Oracle Service Bus

2nd Edition. Apress, 2008. – 524 pages.
The enterprise service bus (ESB) is a hot topic today. In this book, the authors introduce you to ESBs in general and Oracle Service Bus in particular, with many examples and clear and understandable explanations of the product and its implementation in a number of ESB use cases. This book takes the very practical and useful approach of picking one of the leading products in the ESB category and does a show-and-tell, instead of dwelling on a lot of philosophical discussions and arguments of various contrasting architectures or definitions of an ESB. It is a very readable and instructive book. As one of the architects of the first release of the product, I feel this book is a fine introduction to Oracle Service Bus.Why Use a Service Bus?
Installing and Configuring the Software
Creating a Hello World Service
Message Flow Basics
A Crash Course in WSDL
Intermediate Message Flows
Asynchronous Messaging
Service Types and Transports
Advanced Messaging Topics
Reporting and Monitoring
SOA Security
Planning Your Service Landscape
Implementing Your Service Landscape
Versioning Services
Performance: Tuning and Best Practices
Administration, Operations, and Management
Custom Transports
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