Oracle SOA Suite Standards

Oracle SOA Suite puts a strong emphasis on standards and interoperability. Among the standards it leverages are:

• The Service Component Architecture (SCA) assembly model abstracts the implementation and allows assembly of components, with little implementation details. SCA enables you to represent business logic as reusable service components that can be easily integrated into any SCA-compliant application. The resulting application is known as a SOA composite application. The specification for the SCA standard is maintained by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
• Service Data Objects (SDO) provide a data programming architecture. It provides a standardized view on data, and provides efficient transportation, as well as change capture, in form of a change summary. More specifically, it collects a data graph of related business objects, called DataObjects. This graph tracks the schema that describes the DataObjects. Knowledge is not required about how to access a particular back-end data source to use SDO in a SOA composite application. Consequently, you can use static or dynamic programming styles and obtain connected and disconnected access.
• Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) provides enterprises with an industry standard for business process orchestration and execution. Using BPEL, you design a business process that integrates a series of discrete services into an end-to-end process flow. This integration reduces process cost and complexity.
• XSL Transformations (XSLT) processes XML documents and transforms document data from one XML schema to another.
• Java Connector Architecture (JCA) provides a Java technology solution to the problem of connectivity between the many application servers in Enterprise Information Systems (EIS).
• Java Messaging Service (JMS) provides a messaging standard that allows application components based on the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) to access business logic distributed among heterogeneous systems.
• Web Service Description Language (WSDL) file provides a standardized view on the capabilities of a service. Bindings provide the entry points into the composite at runtime.
• SOAP over HTTP (SOAP) provides the default network protocol for message delivery.