Contents

List of Examples

List of Figures

List of Tables

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Oracle AIA Guides
• Related Documents
• Additional Resources
• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

What's New in This Guide for Release 11.1.1.6.x

1 Understanding the Oracle AIA Reference Architecture

• 1.1 Introduction to Oracle Application Integration Architecture
• 1.2 AIA Features
• 1.3 Understanding Integrations
  • 1.3.1 The Integration Flow Concept
  • 1.3.2 Integration Styles
  • 1.3.3 Data-Centric Integrations
    • 1.3.3.1 What Oracle Provides
  • 1.3.4 Integration Through Native Interfaces
    • 1.3.4.1 What Oracle Provides
  • 1.3.5 Integration Through Web Services
    • 1.3.5.1 What Oracle Provides
  • 1.3.6 Reference Data Query
    • 1.3.6.1 What Oracle Provides
  • 1.3.7 Process-Centric Integration
    • 1.3.7.1 What Oracle Provides
  • 1.3.8 What Integration Pattern Should be Used: Direct Transformation Of The Data Objects or a Canonical Data Model And EBOs?
• 1.4 AIA and Integration Styles
  • 1.4.1 Pre-built Integration Accelerators
  • 1.4.2 Integration Through Native Application Interfaces Using the Oracle Applications Technology Infrastructure
  • 1.4.3 Direct Integration Through Application Web Services Using Oracle SOA Suite
  • 1.4.4 Integration Through Packaged Canonical and Standardized Interfaces Using Oracle Foundation Pack
  • 1.4.5 Bulk Data Integration with an Extract, Transform, and Load Approach Using Oracle Data Integration Suite
    • 1.4.5.1 Integrations for High-Volume Transactions without an Xref Table
• 1.5 AIA Reference Process Models
  • 1.5.1 What is a Business Process?
  • 1.5.2 What is a Business Activity?
  • 1.5.3 What is a Task?
  • 1.5.4 What is a Composite Business Flow?
• 1.6 The Conceptual View of AIA
  • 1.6.1 What is a Service Consumer?
  • 1.6.2 What are AIA Conceptual Services?
  • 1.6.3 What are Provider Applications and Resources?
• 1.7 The AIA Shared Service Inventory
  • 1.7.1 What is a Process Service?
  • 1.7.2 What is an Activity Service?
  • 1.7.3 What is a Data Service?
  • 1.7.4 What is a Utility Service?
  • 1.7.5 Implementing Process Services
    • 1.7.5.1 Common Scenarios for Process Services
  • 1.7.6 Implementing Activity Services
    • 1.7.6.1 Common Scenarios for Activity Services
  • 1.7.7 Implementing Data Services
• 1.8 AIA Service Artifacts
  • 1.8.1 What is a Composite Business Process?
  • 1.8.2 What is an Enterprise Business Service?
  • 1.8.3 What is an Enterprise Business Flow?
  • 1.8.4 What is an Application Business Connector Service?

2 Understanding EBOs and EBMs

• 2.1 Introduction to EBOs
  • 2.1.1 Business Component
  • 2.1.2 Common Components
  • 2.1.3 Reference Components
• 2.2 Introduction to EBMs
  • 2.2.1 EBM Architecture
• 2.3 EBM Headers

3 Understanding Enterprise Business Services

• 3.1 Introduction to EBS
• 3.2 EBS Operations
• 3.3 Verbs
• 3.4 EBS Types
  • 3.4.1 Entity Services
  • 3.4.2 Process Services
• 3.5 EBS Architecture
  • 3.5.1 Reuse of Available Assets
  • 3.5.2 Substituting One Service Provider for Another
  • 3.5.3 Content-Based Selection of the Service Provider
  • 3.5.4 EBS Purpose
• 3.6 Enterprise Business Flow Processes
• 3.7 EBS Implementation
  • 3.7.1 EBS Flow
• 3.8 EBS Message Exchange Patterns
  • 3.8.1 Synchronous Request-Response Patterns in EBSs
  • 3.8.2 Asynchronous Fire-and-Forget Patterns in EBSs
  • 3.8.3 Asynchronous Request-Delayed Response Patterns in EBSs

4 Understanding Application Business Connector Services

• 4.1 Introduction to ABCS
• 4.2 ABCS Architecture
• 4.3 ABCS Characteristics
• 4.4 Architectural Considerations
  • 4.4.1 Participating Application's Service Granularity
  • 4.4.2 Support for EBMs
  • 4.4.3 Application Interfaces
  • 4.4.4 Support for Logging and Monitoring
  • 4.4.5 Support for Insulating the Service Provider
  • 4.4.6 Support for Security
  • 4.4.7 Validations
  • 4.4.8 Support for Internationalization and Localization
  • 4.4.9 Message Consolidation and Decomposition
  • 4.4.10 Support for Multiple Application Instances
• 4.5 Implementing ABCS
  • 4.5.1 Requester-Side ABCS
  • 4.5.2 Provider-Side ABCS
• 4.6 Reviewing Implementation Technologies for ABCS
  • 4.6.1 Oracle Mediator
  • 4.6.2 BPEL
• 4.7 Extending or Customizing ABCS Processing
• 4.8 Processing Multiple Instances
• 4.9 Participating Applications Invoking ABCS
• 4.10 ABCS Transformations
  • 4.10.1 Transformation: Implementation Approach
  • 4.10.2 Static Data Cross-Referencing
  • 4.10.3 Dynamic Data Cross-Referencing
  • 4.10.4 Structural Transformation

5 Understanding Interaction Patterns

• 5.1 Introduction to Patterns for Exchanging Messages
• 5.2 Request-Response
  • 5.2.1 Synchronous Response
• 5.3 Fire-and-Forget
  • 5.3.1 Message Routing
  • 5.3.2 Message Splitting and Routing
• 5.4 Data Enrichment
• 5.5 Data Aggregation
• 5.6 Asynchronous Request - Delayed Response Pattern
• 5.7 Publish-and-Subscribe

6 Understanding Extensibility

• 6.1 Introduction to Extensibility
• 6.2 Schema Extensions
  • 6.2.1 Customer Extensions
  • 6.2.2 Industry-Specific Extensions
  • 6.2.3 Schema in the Use Case
• 6.3 Transformation Extensions
  • 6.3.1 Extensions in the Use Case
• 6.4 Transport/Flow Extensions
• 6.5 Process Extensions
• 6.6 Routing Extensions

7 Understanding Versioning

• 7.1 Schema Versioning
  • 7.1.1 Major and Minor Versions
  • 7.1.2 Namespaces
• 7.2 Service Versioning
  • 7.2.1 Naming Conventions
• 7.3 Participating Applications Versioning

8 Understanding Batch Processing

• 8.1 Batch Processing Use Cases
• 8.2 Bulk Data Integration Patterns
  • 8.2.1 Initial Data Loads and High Volume Transactions with XREF Table
  • 8.2.2 High Volume Transactions Without XREF
  • 8.2.3 Intermittent High Volume Transactions

9 Understanding Security

• 9.1 Introduction to Security
  • 9.1.1 Point-to-Point or End-to-End Security
  • 9.1.2 Transport-Level Security
  • 9.1.3 Message-Level Security
• 9.2 Oracle AIA Methodology
• 9.3 Introduction to Application Security Context

Index