Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Foundation Pack 11gR1: Essentials

274 Pages·2012·13.739 MB·English

by  Hariharan V Ganesarethinam

Oracle Application Integration
Architecture (AIA) Foundation
Pack 11gR1: Essentials
Develop and deploy your Enterprise Integration
Solutions using Oracle AIA
Hariharan V. Ganesarethinam
professional expertise distilled
P U B L I S H I N G
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA)
Foundation Pack 11gR1: Essentials
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About the Author
Hariharan V. Ganesarethinam is associated with Aspire Systems Inc, USA
as Senior Architect of Enterprise Architecture Solutions. He leads enterprise
architecture, integration, and SOA solutions for various customers of Aspire
Systems Inc. He has around 15 years of experience in the IT industry with a variety
of technologies, strategy, and enterprise solution experiences. He has architected
various enterprise-level solutions based on SOA, BPM, and EAI architectures. Prior
to Aspire Systems, he was leading various integration and research projects in MGL
Americas and Unisys India.
Hariharan is very passionate in researching and learning upcoming technologies,
architecture, and industry's best practices. His expertise and knowledge in SOA, EAI,
ESB, BPM, and SOA Governance has made him comfortable in providing technical
and business solutions to folks across the globe. He has hands-on experience in
implementing SOA and EAI projects using Web Services, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle
AIA, iWay Service Manager, and Java CAPS. He is also an Oracle certified Oracle
SOA Architect Expert.
Hariharan is well known in the SOA industries through his articles published on IT
Toolbox (http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/soa-governance/) and SYS-CON Media
(http://vghariharan.sys-con.com/). He has written many articles in the area
of SOA and SOA Governance. His articles are related to various decision-making
situations in the SOA implementation. He owns a group in www.linkedin.com
called "SOA, EA and IT Governance Practitioners Forum" through which he shares
and consolidates industries view on SOA and EA practices. He also presented a
paper in the IBI Summit 2010 about "Service Reusability and Best Practices".
Acknowledgement
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.—Henry Ford
As Henry said, the success of this book is made up of many hands. First, I would
like to thank Rukshana Khambatta, the Acquisition Editor of Packt Publishing
for her confidence in my skills and abilities. Even though I have written many
articles online, this is my first book and she guided me very well in the beginning
that triggered me to complete it. Jovita Pinto, the Project Coordinator from Packt
Publishing would be the next person that I would like to thank since she was very
patient in approaching me and gathering my deliveries. I always believe in review
because that helps to correct our mistakes and align towards success. Even though
I do not have any direct contact with the reviewers of this book, I believe their
contribution added a lot of value during the process of writing.
I would also like to thank my wife Shanthi Hariharan who encouraged me whenever
I lost my confidence and felt lazy. Many times, she reminded me to complete and
deliver my write-ups to the publishing office. Finally, I would like to thank my kids,
my dad, and my friends who directly or indirectly have appreciated my efforts.
About the Reviewers
Arun Ramesh started his IT career in 2005 and has since worked on challenging
integration assignments. He has been a part of some major IT consulting giants,
globally. He has a niche portfolio of skills in integration-related technologies from
multiple vendors. He is currently, a Senior Technical Consultant specializing in
integrations on Oracle Fusion Middleware based on Service Oriented Architecture.
He has been a part of major pioneering implementation milestones using
Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle AIA. He has also been instrumental in
implementations using Oracle stack with the integration layer being Oracle AIA. He
is an expert in complex and very large customizations in AIA PIPs and has been a
front runner for one such challenging engagement for a telecom major in Europe.
He has been a reviewer for various books on Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle
BPM. He is distinguishably known in the public domain for his technology blog on
Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle AIA, which provides numerous technical tips,
product reviews, code snippets, and solutions to other blogger queries.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my family who
supported and encouraged me in spite of all the times that it took me
away from them. It was a long and difficult journey for them.

I would also like to thank all those who have helped me in some way
to complete the review of this book and whose names I have failed to
mention.
Sandeep Phukan has more than eight years of experience in integration
technologies and Java. He currently works as an Architect in Anatas Consulting,
Sydney, a leader in Cloud Computing and next generation Enterprise Architecture
Solutions for Asia Pacific region. Earlier, he worked as a Technical Lead for Nokia
Siemens Network R&D, Bangalore, assisting on the integration of Next Generation
Unified Convergent Billing Systems based on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.
Prior to this, Sandeep worked with Oracle SSI, Bangalore as a Senior Consultant,
where his key involvement was Oracle AIA for Communications (Telco PIP). During
this period he travelled to several countries around the world, aiding customers in
developing customizations for Oracle AIA artifacts.
Sandeep is a certified Java Developer and has a keen interest in Low Bandwidth
Transports and Distributed Algorithms. During his time at Oracle SSI, he was
actively involved with the SSI Innovation Centre, where he created a number
of utility extensions to the Oracle SOA Suite. He also maintains an open source
repository of several SOA utilities in the Google code repository, http://code.
google.com/p/soalabs/.
Sandeep is also an avid researcher in the area of SOA Governance. He has published
a number of papers in the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) on technology neutral
Designtime Dependency analysis of SOA Artifacts. Reference One of his inventions
on this subject (Graph Based Designtime Dependency Analysis) has recently been
accepted for a Patent in the US Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO).
I would like to thank my loving wife, Aparupa, for her patience
during those late night researches and my friends and colleagues at
Anatas, NSN, and Oracle who were always there whenever I needed
them.
Senthil Raja is a consultant with Cognizant focusing on SOA technologies with
three years of overall experience. He has been involved in development of SOA-
based projects throughout his career. Senthil has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in
Electronics and Communications engineering from the Anna University.
I would like thank my colleagues for their help in reviewing
this book.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Overview of Oracle AIA 7
Various types of integration 8
Data integration 8
Functional integration 8
Presentation (UI) integration 8
Business process integration 8
Business to business integration 9
Integration architectures 9
Point-to-point 9
Shared data repository 10
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) 10
Message oriented middleware (MOM) 11
Web service integration 12
Service-oriented Architecture 13
What is Oracle AIA? 16
What is Oracle AIA Process Integration Pack? 16
Oracle AIA Foundation Pack concepts 17
Components of AIA Foundation Pack 21
Enterprise Business Objects (EBO) 22
Enterprise Business Messages (EBM) 22
Enterprise Business Services (EBS) 23
Enterprise Business Flow (EBF) 24
Application Business Connector Services (ABCS) 24
Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER) 25
Composite Application Validation System (CAVS) 25
Oracle AIA Reference Architecture 26
AIA Process Reference Model 27