Introduction and Roadmap

This section describes the contents and organization of this guide—Oracle Complex Event Processing Type 4 JDBC Drivers.

Document Scope and Audience

This document is a resource for software developers who develop event driven real-time applications. It also contains information that is useful for business analysts and system architects who are evaluating Oracle CEP or considering the use of Oracle CEP for a particular application.

The topics in this document are relevant during the design, development, configuration, deployment, and performance tuning phases of event driven applications. The document also includes topics that are useful in solving application problems that are discovered during test and pre-production phases of a project.

It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Java programming language and Spring.

Oracle CEP Documentation Set

This document is part of a larger Oracle CEP documentation set that covers a comprehensive list of topics. The full documentation set includes the following documents:

Guide to This Document

This chapter, Introduction and Roadmap, introduces the organization of this guide and the Oracle CEP documentation set and samples.
Using The Type 4 JDBC Drivers,provides information about connecting to a database with Oracle CEP Type 4 JDBC drivers.
The MS SQL Server Type 4 JDBC Driver, provides detailed information about the Microsoft SQL Server driver.
JDBC Support, lists support for standard and extension JDBC methods.
GetTypeInfo, provides results returned from the method DataBaseMetaData.getTypeinfo for all of the Type 4 JDBC drivers.
SQL Escape Sequences for JDBC, describes the scalar functions supported for the Type 4 JDBC drivers. Your data store may not support all of these functions.

Samples for the Oracle CEP Application Developer

In addition to this document, Oracle provides a variety of code samples for Oracle CEP application developers. The examples illustrate Oracle CEP in action, and provide practical instructions on how to perform key development tasks.

Oracle recommends that you run some or all of the examples before programming and configuring your own event driven application.

Pre-packaged and compiled in their own domain so you can immediately run them after you install the product.
Separately in a Java source directory so you can see a typical development environment setup.

The following four examples are provided in both their own domain and as Java source in this release of Oracle CEP:

HelloWorld—Example that shows the basic elements of an Oracle CEP application. See Hello World Example for additional information.

The HelloWorld domain is located in ORACLE_CEP_HOME\ocep_10.3\samples\domains\helloworld_domain, where ORACLE_CEP_HOME refers to the Oracle CEP installation directory, such as c:\oracle_cep.

The HelloWorld Java source code and configuration files are located in ORACLE_CEP_HOME\ocep_10.3\samples\source\applications\helloworld.

ForeignExchange (FX)—Example that includes multiple adapters, streams, and complex event processor with a variety of EPL rules, all packaged in the same Oracle CEP application. See Foreign Exchange (FX) Example for additional information.

The ForeignExchange domain is located in ORACLE_CEP_HOME\ocep_10.3\samples\domains\fx_domain, where ORACLE_CEP_HOME refers to the Oracle CEP installation directory, such as c:\oracle_cep.

The ForeignExchange Java source code and configuration files are located in ORACLE_CEP_HOME\ocep_10.3\samples\source\applications\fx.

Signal Generation—Example that receives simulated market data and verifies if the price of a security has fluctuated more than two percent, and then detects if there is a trend occurring by keeping track of successive stock prices for a particular symbol.See Signal Generation Example for additional information.

The Signal Generation domain is located in ORACLE_CEP_HOME\ocep_10.3\samples\domains\signalgeneration_domain, where ORACLE_CEP_HOME refers to the Oracle CEP installation directory, such as c:\oracle_cep.

The Signal Generation Java source code and configuration files are located in ORACLE_CEP_HOME\ocep_10.3\samples\source\applications\signalgeneration.

Record and Playback—Example that shows how to configure the recording and playback of events to a persistent event store, as well as how to use the built-in HTTP pub-sub adapter to publish messages to a channel. See Event Record and Playback Example for additional information.

The Record and Playback domain is located in ORACLE_CEP_HOME\ocep_10.3\samples\domains\recplay_domain, where ORACLE_CEP_HOME refers to the Oracle CEP installation directory, such as c:\oracle_cep.

The Record and Playback Java source code and configuration files are located in ORACLE_CEP_HOME\ocep_10.3\samples\source\applications\recplay.