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Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in This Guide

• New and Changed Features for Release 12c (12.1.3)
• New and Changed Features for Release 12c (12.1.2)
• Other Significant Changes in this Document for Release 12c (12.1.2)

1 Introducing Oracle Infrastructure Web Services

• Overview of Oracle Infrastructure Web Services
• Supported Standards
• Related Documentation

2 Attaching Policies to Oracle Infrastructure Web Services

• What Are Policies and Policy Sets?
• OWSM Predefined Policies and Assertion Templates
• Attaching Policies to Web Services

3 Securing Oracle Infrastructure Web Services

• Overview of Web Services Security
• OWSM Predefined Security Policies and Assertion Templates
• Attaching Security Policies
• Configuring Security Policies

4 Developing Asynchronous Web Services

• Overview of Asynchronous Web Services
  • Asynchronous Web Service Using a Single Request Queue
  • Asynchronous Web Service Using a Request and a Response Queue
  • Client Perspective of Asynchronous Web Service Call
  • How Asynchronous Messages Are Correlated
• Using JDeveloper to Develop and Deploy Asynchronous Web Services
• Developing an Asynchronous Web Service
• Creating the Request and Response Queues
  • Using the Default WebLogic JMS Queues
    • Using the Default WebLogic JMS Queues in Clustered Domains
    • Using the Default WebLogic JMS Queues in Non-clustered Domains
    • Tuning the Default JMS Delivery Failure Parameters
  • Creating Custom Request and Response Queues
  • Administering Request and Response Queues at Runtime
  • Securing the Request and Response Queues
    • Configuring a JMS System User (Optional)
    • Running the WLST Script to Secure the Request and Response Queues
  • Confirming the Request and Response Queue Configuration
• Configuring the Callback Service
• Configuring SSL for Asynchronous Web Services
• Defining Asynchronous Web Service Clients
  • Updating the Asynchronous Client Code
  • Updating the Callback Service Code
• Attaching Policies to Asynchronous Web Services and Clients
  • Attaching Policies to Asynchronous Web Service Clients
  • Attaching Policies to Asynchronous Callback Services
  • Attaching Policies to Callback Clients

5 Using Web Services Reliable Messaging

• Overview of Web Services Reliable Messaging
• Predefined Reliable Messaging Policies
• Attaching Reliable Messaging Policies
• Configuring Reliable Messaging Policies

6 Using Web Services Atomic Transactions

• Overview of Web Services Atomic Transactions
• Enabling Web Services Atomic Transactions on a Web Service (Inbound)
• Enabling Web Services Atomic Transactions on a Web Service Client (Outbound)
• Configuring Web Services Atomic Transactions
• Securing the Messages Exchanged Between the Coordinator and Participant

7 Optimizing XML Transmission Using Fast Infoset

• Overview of Fast Infoset
• Enabling Fast Infoset on Web Services
• Enabling and Configuring Fast Infoset on Web Services Clients
  • Configuring the Content Negotiation Strategy
  • Example Using FastInfosetClientFeature Feature Class at Design Time
• Disabling Fast Infoset on Web Services and Clients

8 Using MTOM Encoded Message Attachments

• Overview of Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism
• Predefined MTOM Attachment Policies
• Attaching MTOM Policies
• Configuring MTOM Policies

9 Developing RESTful Web Services

• Overview of RESTful Web Services
• How RESTful Web Services Requests Are Formed and Processed
  • Building HTTP Get Requests
  • Build HTTP Post Request
  • Building RESTful Responses
• Limitations of RESTful Web Service Support

10 Invoking a Web Service from a Standalone Client

11 Testing Web Services

12 Interoperability Guidelines

• Introduction to Web Service Interoperability
• Web Service Interoperability Organizations
  • SOAPBuilders Community
  • WS-Interoperability
• General Guidelines for Creating Interoperable Web Services
  • Design Your Web Service Top Down
  • Design Your Data Types Using XSD First
  • Keep Data Types Simple
    • Use Single-dimensional Arrays
    • Differentiate Between Empty Arrays and Null References to Arrays
    • Avoid Sparse, Variable-sized, or Multi-dimensional Arrays
    • Avoid Using xsd:anyType
    • Map Any Unsupported xsd:types to SOAPElement
  • Use Null Values With Care
  • Use a Compliance Testing Tool to Validate the WSDL
  • Consider the Differences Between Platform Native Types
  • Avoid Using RPC-Encoded Message Format
  • Avoid Name Collisions
  • Use Message Handlers, Custom Serializers, or Interceptors
  • Apply WS-* Specifications Judiciously