34 Introduction to the User Guide

This part provides information on using and configuring Oracle Service Bus. It is intended for those responsible for messaging and SOA, specifically enterprise architects, application architects, and developers.

Use this guide as a practical high-level guide for working with Oracle Service Bus. While sometimes providing procedural information, this guide does not provide detailed information on how to configure resources using the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console or the Eclipse plug-ins. For information on using the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console, see Part II, "Console Help for Oracle Service Bus". For information on using the Oracle Service Bus Eclipse plug-ins, see "IDE Help for Oracle Service Bus" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.

Information for operations specialists such as monitoring, reporting, and tracing is presented in Part II, "Operations Guide".

For information about Oracle Service Bus transport providers used in proxy and business services, see "Transports" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.

For security implementation details, see "Security" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.

For deployment details, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Deployment Guide for Oracle Service Bus.