1 Introduction to SOA and the Oracle SOA Suite

This chapter provides an overview of the benefits of creating applications based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how you can use the components included in the Oracle SOA Suite to design, develop, deploy and monitor an SOA application.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Section 1.1, "Overview of SOA and the Oracle SOA Suite"

• Section 1.2, "SOA Benefits"

• Section 1.3, "Using Oracle SOA Suite to Adopt SOA"