E-Business Suite Applications - WebCast Part3

E-Business Suite
E-Business Suite WebCast Appstech R12
Sharing Knowledge Training Luigi Pellecchia

Part 3: Process Integration and Events Consulting eBS
Agenda
• Introduction
• Extras (SOA, WS, WSDL, BPEL, etc.)
• Process, Integrations and SOA prespective in eBS R12
• Oracle Integration Repository Architecture and Elements
• Workflow in R12: Worklist, API, Digital Sign, Notification Mailer
• SES (Anticipation)
• Global Survey R12 Q&A
• Q&A
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Characteristics of an Enterprise Application
Adaptive Multi Channel Architecture
Process, Integration
Portal and User Interface
and Events
Business Intelligence
Security
and Reporting
Personalization Lifecycle Management
Availability, Performance
Data Management
And Scalability

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Characteristics of an Enterprise Application
Process, Integration
and Events

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Process, Integration and Events
• Oracle Integration Repository

– Compilation of information about the numerous service endpoints exposed by the Oracle
E-Business Suite of applications.
– Provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces.
• Open Standards
– B2B Document Exchange - EDIfact, X.12, RosettaNet, HL7, OAG 7.0, etc…
– Protocols - AS2, SOAP, HTTP, etc…
• Instant-Value integrations
– Pre-built bridges that seamlessly link Oracle Applications together for end to end industry
processes
• Option: leverage Oracle Technology

– Oracle SOA Suite to provide the foundation for adaptive business processes, by enabling
a service-oriented architecture
– Oracle Business Process Analysis (BPA) that includes process modeling and simulation,
is a key component of the BPM lifecycle. BPA together with process execution and
monitoring tools enable complete lifeycle management of business processes (OEM of
the leading ARIS design platform from IDS Scheer).

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Concetti Generali
•SOA
•Web service
•WSDL
•SOAP
•BPEL
•UDDI
• XML

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Evoluzione di Oracle SOA
SOA Suite
Portlet Web
Services (WSRP)
WSDL, UDDI, Development Tools, Web Services

Expanded Web Services Platform Manager, BAM BPA
Suite
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Web Services J2EE 1.4 Standard ESB

Support Web Services
Oracle
Data
BPEL Process Service Integrator
Manager Registry

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SOA Standards
Fusion Effect Richer Experience More Adaptable More Interoperable
ERP/
Portal Legacy Apps
Security
Reliability Custom Apps
Web Application
Logging & Services
Failover
PKI Process Flow
Dynamic Routing
Dashboards Logic
WS
API Web services
MONITORING USER INTERFACE PROCESS ORCHESTRATION SERVICE BUS BUSINESS SERVICES

BAM WSRP, JSR-168 BPEL WS-Security XML/XML Schema
JMX Struts/JSF XSLT/XQuery WS-Policy, SAML WSDL/WSIF
Web Services Mgmt SOAP JCA JMS

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SOA – Service Oriented Architecture

•Nell'ambito dell‘informatica, è indicata come un'architettura software atta a
supportare l'uso di servizi (Web Services) per soddisfare le richieste degli
utenti così da consentire l'utilizzo delle singole applicazioni come
componenti del processo di business.
Aspetti dello sviluppo della

Service Oriented Architecture
•La validità di un'architettura orientata ai servizi (SOA) è conseguenza degli

elementi e degli standard su cui si fonda. In particolare vanno considerati i
seguenti aspetti:

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Concetti Generali
• Standard aperti: utilizza standard aperti come: XML, WSDL e WSS (Web
Services Security).
• Modularità: giusto equilibrio tra i servizi erogati da ogni singolo

componente: piccoli servizi riutilizzabili per le funzioni comuni e servizi più
grandi per processi specifici.
• Contratti di servizio: WSDL (Web Services Description Language) specifiche

standard per la creazione di contratti di Web Services.
• ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) : dorsale di pubblicazione dei servizi ed

abilitazione delle applicazioni per accedervi. Inoltre: adattatori per i sistemi
legacy, capacità di orchestrazione dei servizi, autorizzazione e
autenticazione lato sicurezza, trasformazione dei dati, supporto per regole
di business e capacità di monitorare i service-level agreement.

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SOA Standards
ERP/
Portal Legacy Apps
Security
Web Application
Logging & Services
Failover
PKI Process Flow
Dynamic Routing
Dashboards Logic
WS
API Web services


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WS -Web Service
•Secondo la definizione data dal W3C un Web Service (servizio web) è un sistema
software progettato per supportare l‘interoperabilità tra diversi sistemi;
•Caratteristica fondamentale di un Web Service è quella di offrire un’interfaccia

software (descritta in un formato automaticamente elaborabile quale, ad esempio,
il WSDL) utilizzando la quale altri sistemi possono interagire con il Web Service
stesso.
•L’interazione avviene attivando le operazioni descritte nell'interfaccia tramite

appositi "messaggi" inclusi in una "busta“ SOAP: tali messaggi sono, solitamente,
trasportati tramite il protocollo HTTP e formattati secondo lo standard XML.

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SOA Standards
ERP/
Portal Legacy Apps
Security
Web Application
Logging & Services
Failover
PKI Process Flow
Dynamic Routing
Dashboards Logic
WS
API Web services


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Vantaggi dei Web Service
•permettono l'interoperabilità tra diverse applicazioni software su diverse
piattaforme hardware
•utilizzano standard e protocolli "open"; i protocolli ed il formato dei dati è, ove

possibile, in formato testuale, cosa che li rende di più facile comprensione ed
utilizzo da parte degli sviluppatori
•mediante l'uso di HTTP per il trasporto dei messaggi i Web Service non
necessitano, normalmente, che vengano effettuate modifiche alle regole di
sicurezza utilizzate come filtro sui Firewall
•possono essere facilmente utilizzati, in combinazione l'uno con l'altro

(indipendentemente da chi li fornisce e da dove vengono resi disponibili) per
formare servizi "integrati" e complessi.
•consentono il riutilizzo di infrastrutture ed applicazioni già sviluppate e sono

(relativamente) indipendenti da eventuali modifiche delle stesse

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Il Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
E’ un linguaggio formale in formato XML utilizzato per la creazione di "documenti" per la
descrizione di Web Service.
Mediante WSDL può essere, infatti, descritta l‘interfaccia pubblica di un Web Service ovvero
creata una descrizione, basata su XML, di come interagire con un determinato servizio: un
"documento" WSDL contiene infatti, relativamente al Web Service descritto, informazioni su:
•cosa può essere utilizzato (le "operazioni" messe a disposizione dal servizio);
•come utilizzarlo (il protocollo di comunicazione da utilizzare per accedere al

servizio, il formato dei messaggi accettati in input e restituiti in output dal servizio
ed i dati correlati) ovvero i "vincoli" (bindings in inglese) del servizio;
•dove utilizzare il servizio (cosiddetto endpoint del servizio che solitamente
corrisponde all'indirizzo - in formato URI - che rende disponibile il Web Service)
Le operazioni supportate dal Web Service ed i messaggi che è possibile scambiare con lo stesso sono
descritti in maniera astratta e quindi collegati ad uno specifico protocollo di rete e ad uno specifico
formato.
Il WSDL è solitamente utilizzato in combinazione con SOAP e XML Schema per rendere disponibili Web
Services su reti aziendali o su internet : un programma client può, infatti, "leggere" il documento WSDL
relativo ad un Web Service per determinare quali siano le funzioni messe a disposizione sul server e quindi
utilizzare il protocollo SOAP per utilizzare una o più delle funzioni elencate dal WSDL.

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SOA Standards
ERP/
Portal Legacy Apps
Security
Web Application
Logging & Services
Failover
PKI Process Flow
Dynamic Routing
Dashboards Logic
WS
API Web services


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UDDI Universal Description Discovery and Integration
L'UDDI (acronimo di Universal Description Discovery and Integration) è un registry (ovvero una base
dati ordinata ed indicizzata), basato su XML ed indipendente dalla piattaforma hardware, che permette
alle aziende la pubblicazione dei propri dati e dei servizi offerti su internet
L'UDDI è uno degli standard alla base del funzionamento dei Web Service: è stato progettato per essere
interrogato da messaggi in SOAP e per fornire il collegamento ai documenti WSDL che descrivono i
vincoli protocollari ed i formati dei messaggi necessari per l'interazione con i Web Service elencati nella
propria directory

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SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
E’ un protocollo leggero per lo scambio di messaggi tra componenti software.
La parola object manifesta che l'uso del protocollo dovrebbe effettuarsi secondo il paradigma
della progammazione orientata ad oggetti.
SOAP è una struttura operativa estensibile e decentralizzata che può operare sopra varie pile
protocollari per reti di computer. I richiami di procedure remote possono essere modellizzati
come interazione di parecchi messaggi SOAP. SOAP dunque è uno dei protocolli che abilitano i
sevizi web.
SOAP può muoversi sopra tutti i protocolli di internet, ma HTTP è il più comunemente utilizzato
e l'unico ad essere stato standardizzato dal W3C.
SOAP si basa sul metalinguaggio XML e la sua struttura segue la configurazione Head-Body,
analogamente ad HTML.
Il segmento opzionale Header contiene meta-informazioni come quelle che riguardano il routing
, la sicurezza e le transazioni. Il segmento Body trasporta il contenuto informativo e talora
viene detto carico pagante, payload.
Questo deve seguire uno schema definito dal linguaggio XML Schema.

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SOA Standards
ERP/
Portal Legacy Apps
Security
Web Application
Logging & Services
Failover
PKI Process Flow
Dynamic Routing
Dashboards Logic
WS
API Web services


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BPEL - Business Process Execution Language
E’ un linguaggio basato sull‘XML costruito per descrivere formalmente i processi commerciali ed

industriali in modo da permettere una suddivisione dei compiti tra attori diversi.
Il linguaggio BPEL permette di descrivere un processo business mediante un insieme di attività,

che possono essere semplici o strutturate. Le attività semplici esprimono una generica azione
(ad es. invoca servizio, ricevi risposta, assegna valore ad una variabile, termina processo,
etc...), mentre quelle strutturate sono normalmente utilizzate per raggruppare attività
semplici allo scopo di esprimere loop, operazioni condizionali, esecuzione sequenziale,
esecuzione concorrente, etc... L'intero processo è descritto mediante un'unica attività
strutturata (top-level activity), generalmente di tipo sequenziale.
Un'applicazione BPEL viene invocata come Web Service ed interagisce con il mondo esterno
esclusivamente invocando altri Web services. In questo senso, essa stessa rappresenta una
forma di coordinazione di servizi Web, permettendo altresì di comporre questi ultimi in
maniera ricorsiva. L'ambiente runtime all'interno del quale viene eseguito il generico processo
è detto motore BPEL

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ERP/
Portal Legacy Apps
Security
Web Application
Logging & Services
Failover
PKI Process Flow
Dynamic Routing
Dashboards Logic
WS
API Web services


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BPEL - Business Process Execution Language
BPEL è in particolare adatto a modellare work-flow completamente automatizzati, per la

composizione di web service l'integrazione di servizi (e applicazioni che li eseguono) etrogenee
per hardware che li esegue, architetture di rete e linguaggio del relativo codice
BPEL permette di esportare e importare questi diagrammi in un file .bpel da un database

proprietario all'altro senza perdere il contenuto della rappresentazione.
La "receive" di un messaggio crea un‘istanza del processo; istanze del processo differenti
variano per il contenuto del messaggi scambiati. Perciò, un campo del messaggio identifica
univocamente l'istanza di appartenenza in modo da inviare i corretti dati a ogni istanza di
processo. I messaggi sono delle "Input/Output variable" per le quali BPEL crea in automatico il
tipo appropriato (stringa, testo, numero), ossia ciò che serve alla persistenza dell'informazione
durante l'esecuzione del workflow; messaggi con identico contenuto informativo vengono
rappresentati con un'istruzione di "assign" che permette di associare ad una variabile il
contenuto di un'altra

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Motori BPEL
Sono stati sviluppati vari motori BPEL, tra i quali:

Active Endpoints ActiveWebflow Server, ActiveBPEL Engine, bexee BPEL Execution Engine,
Biztalk Server, IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation,
Collaxa BPEL Orchestration Server è un motore basato su application server J2EE.

Dalla versione 2 è incluso un ambiente di sviluppo visuale basato su Eclipse.
In sequito all'acquisizione di questo prodotto da Oracle Corporation l'ambiente di sviluppo è ora
basato anche sulla JDeveloper IDE di Oracle.
Oracle BPEL Process Manager[1] è un motore BPEL nativo. Ha un supporto completo alla
specifica BPEL, è stato la prima implementazione commerciale di questo standard ed include
estensioni per il supporto dell'interazione umana (Human WorkFlow). È una applicazione J2EE
e puo' funzionare sui principali Application Server e sui principali sistemi operativi.

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Oracle Integration Repository (iRep)
Review Business Needs – Market Drivers
• Customer Pain Points

 What are the integration points within applications?
 How can I make informed decisions about my integration projects?
• Market Drivers
 Reduce costs of implementing integrations with and within the E-Business suite
 Centralized repository of information to assess the impact of integrations
 Reduce maintenance costs
 Superior Ownership Experience

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Description
• Unified Repository from which all integration interface types are exposed
• Updates are automated and documented
• Single source of truth for all public interfaces
• Can be searched by keywords
• Navigation either by product family or by the integration types or standards
• Intuitive User Interface for searching, navigating and viewing all available Interfaces
• Embedded within the core E-Business Suite schema to leverage the standard security system

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Benefits
• Better integration planning

– Readily available information about the business service interfaces that enable to make
informed decisions about integration projects
– Centralized information helps to assess the impact of integrations
• Reduced cost of implementing integrations with the E-Business Suite
– System integrators can discover all the business service interfaces in one place
– Uniformity of documentation lowers the learning curve
• Reduced Maintenance Costs
– Assurance of using supported public interfaces

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Interface Types
• PL/SQL APIs
• Open Interface Tables
• Database Views
• Concurrent Programs
• Java API
• Web Service
• XML Messages
• EDI Transactions
• Java Service Interface
• Service Data Object

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Interface Types
– New Interfaces Types

• Java Service Interface
• Service Data Object
– New User Interface to deploy Java Interface as a Web Service
– New User Interface to grant access to a Web Service

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Standard
– RosettaNet è un consorzio per la realizzazione di standard nelle comunicazioni B2B

in vari mercati.Rosetta si basa sul linguaggio XML.
– Uniform Code Council
– The Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGi) is a not-for-profit open standards group
building process-based XML standards for both B2B and A2A integration. The Open
Applications Group was formed in late 1994 as the first post-EDI organization
focusing on improving the state of application integration.
– Interactive Financial Exchange (IFX) is an XML specification for financial

transactions such as bill presentment and payment, business to business and
consumer to business banking (eg: balances, transaction information), payments
and automated teller machine (ATM) communications.

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Standard
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a set of standards for structuring information

to be electronically exchanged between and within businesses, organizations,
government entities and other groups. The standards describe structures that
emulate documents, for example purchase orders to automate purchasing
X12 EDIFACT Mapping

Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce, and Transport
TRANSACTION SET/DOCUMENT ANSI SET EDIFACT
FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS
Invoice 810 INVOIC
Freight Invoice 859 IFTMCS
Payment order/Remittance Advice (EFT) 820 REMADV
Lockbox 823 --
Financial Information Reporting 821 --

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Standard
– Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a set of standards for structuring information to be

electronically exchanged between and within businesses, organizations, government entities and
other groups. The standards describe structures that emulate documents, for example purchase
orders to automate purchasing
– RosettaNet è un consorzio per la realizzazione di standard nelle comunicazioni B2B in vari

mercati.Rosetta si basa sul linguaggio XML.
– Uniform Code Council
– The Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGi) is a not-for-profit open standards group building
process-based XML standards for both B2B and A2A integration. The Open Applications Group was
formed in late 1994 as the first post-EDI organization focusing on improving the state of
application integration.
– Interactive Financial Exchange (IFX) is an XML specification for financial transactions such as
bill presentment and payment, business to business and consumer to business banking (eg:
balances, transaction information), payments and automated teller machine (ATM)
communications.

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Process – Navigate By Product Family

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Process – Navigate By Interface Type

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Process – Navigate By Standard

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Process – Search the Interface

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Deploy Java Interface as a Web Service

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Deploy Java Interface as a Web Service

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Web Service WSDL

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Summary
• Single, Complete Source of Truth for existing supported interfaces

• Standardized Annotation at source
• Catalogued by Product & Type & Standard
• Simple Interface and Navigation
• Ship as part of the E-Business Suite
– As your instance is patched, the repository will automatically be updated with
content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.
Benefits
• Better integration planning
• Reduced cost of implementing integrations with the E-Business Suite
• Reduced Maintenance Costs

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Leverage Oracle Technology
Oracle SOA Suite
Comprehensive
BAM Analytics Events Monitoring
JDeveloper BPEL Process Manager

Native Human Business Web Services
Integrated
BPEL Workflow Rules Manager
Services
Environment Enterprise Service Bus
App Dev XSLT
Framework Adapters Routing Security
Transform
Application Server UDDI

B2B
J2EE, WS-*, Event Services Registry

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Oracle SOA Suite
Hot-Pluggable
BAM Monitoring
BPEL Process Manager

JDev ILog JRules
Eclipse Native Corticon
Workflow Rules
BPEL
Oracle Directory
Web Services Manager Security Active Directory
Any LDAP Server
Enterprise Service Bus
Oracle AQ
UDDI Oracle Service Registry,
Tibco Adapters Routing
Registry Systinet (Mercury)
MQ Series
Any JMS Server Sce Registry,
Any UDDI Registry
Any Application Server Any WSIL Registry
(Oracle, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss)

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Oracle Applications Adapter
• How do I use Fusion Middleware with Oracle Applications today?
• How do I enable interoperability in a heterogeneous environment?
• How do I enable standards based Service Oriented Architecture

(SOA) for E-Business Suite ?

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• Oracle Adapter for Oracle Applications provides comprehensive, bidirectional,

multimodal, synchronous, and asynchronous connectivity to Oracle
Applications
• Exposes Oracle Applications Integration Interfaces as web services.
• Interfaces with IREP to expose only recommended public integration

interfaces.
• Exposes E-Business Suite Business Object Services as a Web Service

• Ability to Create and Deploy Web Service
• Run time Web Service engine
• Integrated into Repository for Service discovery.
• Enables a E-Business Suite Web Service to participate in a BPEL process

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• Version Awareness
• Interfaces with Integration
EDI Gateway
Repository
XML
• Integrates via Open
Gateway Interfaces and Stored
Oracle Procedures for inserting
E-Business Workflow
BES
Suite data into Oracle
Adapter Interface
Tables, Applications.
Concurrent
Mgr
• Bi-directional XML
Stored
integration with XML and
Procedures EDI Gateway for exchanging
OAG based XML/EDI
documents.

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Some of the Adapters Available for Oracle SOA Suite…
Applications Databases Technology
 Oracle  Oracle 8i and above  SOAP
Applications  IBM DB/2  HTTP, HTTP-S
 SAP R/3, mySAP  Informix  Email – POP3, SMTP, IMAP
 Peoplesoft  Clarion
 FTP, FTP-S
 JD Edwards  Clipper
 Flat Files
 Siebel  Cloudscape
 LDAP
 Clarify  DBASE
 JMS
 Lotus Notes  Dialog
 Oracle AQ
 Ariba  Essbase
 IBM MQSeries
 AXIOM mx/open  FOCUS Data Access
 TIBCO Rendezvous
 Baan  Great Plains
 Socket
 

BroadVision
Clarify 
Microsoft SQL Server
MUMPS (Digital Standard MUMPS)
Legacy
  CICS
Commerce One  Navision Financials (ODBC 3.x)  IMS/DB
 Hogan Financials  Nucleus
  IMS/TM
i2 Technologies  Paradox  VSAM
 Lawson  Pointbase
  ADABAS
Livelink  PROGRESS  Natural
 Manugistics  Red Brick
  Tuxedo
Microsoft CRM  RMS  CA-Datacom
 Vantive  SAS Transport Format
  Screen Scraping
Walker Interactive  Sybase  CA-IDMS
 Remedy  Teradata
  C-ISAM,D-ISAM,K-SAM,
Salesforce.com  Unisys DMS 1100/2200 QSAM
 UniVerse

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Operational dashboard
Order Booking SOA Demo
Focus on ESB, Rules, Workflow, BPEL
Siebel Call Center

ESB Order Booking BPEL PROCESS BAM
receive
Order DB
Web Services Interface: XML, SOAP, WSDL, WSIF

Insert Order
in OI EJB 3.0
Customer service
Approval
SelectMfr RapidMfr (Rich Workflow)
invoke invoke
5-15 min
receive receive
Product
Suppliers
Returning
Status
Notification
Service
end

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Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite
Business Process
Analysis (BPA)
Model
• Fusion Middleware Optimize Simulate

BPM
– Add Business Process Analysis capability Lifecycle
– Address customers and partners demand Monitor Implement
– Appeal to Line of Business audience
Deploy
Execute
• Fusion Applications
– Create Reference Process Models
Enterprise Management
EnterprisePlanning
Management
and Performance Management
Operations
Field Service
Marketing Sales Order Fulfillment
Support
Procurement Product Design Production
– Facilitate Collaborative Design

Operations Support
Enterprise
Financial Control
Program
Program Financial Control
Cash
CashManagement
Management and Reporting
Management
Management and
andReporting
Reporting
Recruiting Deployment Development Reward
– Simplify selling, training and implementation

Business Process
Detailed Business
Process
Activity

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Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite
Process Design using Methods Analyses Using Simulation
Various Reports Web Publishing
Design, Run and Optimize Your Business Processes

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Instant-Value Integrations
• Objective
– Instant-Value integrations are pre-built bridges that seamlessly link
Oracle Applications together for end to end industry processes
• Benefits
– Shorten Time to Value
• Accelerate deployment time
• No disruption to existing business operations
– Reduce Implementation Costs
• Lower total cost of ownership
• Built on open standards
– Achieve End-to-End Integrated Industry Processes
• Accurate information flow across the enterprise
• Instant task flow through end-to-end business processes

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List of Pre-Built and Orchestrated Process Flows
• Oracle E-Business Suite Financials to Oracle Retails

• Oracle Customer Data Hub to PeopleSoft CRM
• Dedicated to Siebel CRM & Oracle Applications integration (Project
Genesys) - planned for FY2007
– Siebel Order Capture to Oracle Order Management
– Siebel OnDemand CRM to Oracle E-Business Suite
– Siebel CRM Call Center On Demand to Oracle E-Business Suite and
PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM
– Siebel CRM to i-Flex FLEXCUBE
– Siebel Clinical and Oracle Clinical Integration
• Dedicated to Portal Software & Oracle Applications integration
(Project Barcelona) - planned for FY2007
• More to come…

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Project Genesys
1. Siebel Order Capture to Oracle Order Management

2. Oracle CRM On Demand to Oracle E-Business Suite
3. Siebel CRM Call Center On Demand to Oracle E-
Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM
4. Siebel CRM to i-flex FLEXCUBE Integration

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Project Barcelona
World’s best-selling Industry’s leading productized Industry’s leading

CRM solution solution for Billing & Revenue ERP solution
Management
Instant Value Through Pre-Integrated Solutions

 Enable no-touch order fulfillment & provisioning
Siebel Oracle
Oracle ERP  Streamline end-to-end revenue management
CRM Fusion
Middleware
 Improved customer service – Call Center, Sales,
Portal & Self Service
Billing & Revenue Mgt  Single view of the customer across CRM, Billing,
and Financials
 Increase product & customer profitability with
Billing Analytics

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Project Genesys Architecture
Initial Bulk Load
Transform
Load Extract
Siebel CRM Oracle Warehouse Oracle EBS
Builder
* Not required for OnDemand and i-Flex integration flows
Updates and Transactions

Fusion Middleware/BPEL Oracle EBS
Request/Reply Process
PeopleSoft
Transform CRM
XSL
Siebel CRM
Synchronization Process i-Flex
Common
Transform Transform
Object
G-Log
*SAP
Cross Reference Common Error
Oracle DB
Indexing Handling

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Project Barcelona Architecture
Components:
 Processes to support key business activities and process flows
 Canonical Object Model
 Transformations to Oracle EBS, Siebel CRM, Siebel Self Care, Siebel UCM, and Portal
Fusion Middleware/BPEL
Oracle EBS
Siebel CRM
Common
Transform Transform
Object
Portal
Siebel Self Different Design Patterns will be leveraged
Care including request/ reply, synchronous process,
(eDocs) asynchronous process, as well as others
Siebel
UCM
Cross Reference Common Error

Indexing Oracle DB Handling

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– Worklist Flexfields
• Prior to Release 12 the columns displayed in the Worklist were restricted to
those provided by Workflow (e.g. From, Type, Subject, Sent, Due etc.)

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Worklist Prior To R12

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– Worklist Flexfields
– Have to drill down to the notification to view specific message attributes
– Too many clicks
– Need the ability to sort based on interested message attributes
• Market Drivers
– Productivity
– Ease of use

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Worklist Flexfields
– Allows customers to enable Notification Message Attributes to be displayed in

the Worklist
– Users can sort on those attributes
– Ability to secure the personalized view with a securing function

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Personal Worklist with Worklist Flexfields
Personalized View
Worklist Flexfields

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– Workflow Engine APIs

 You have to call the engine API’s sequentially in a loop to start multiple
instances of the same Workflow process
• Market Drivers
 Performance, Performance, Performance, Performance

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Workflow Bulk API’s
– Enables you to start multiple work items of the same process in bulk
– New API’s
– wf_engine_bulk.CreateProcess
– wf_engine_bulk.StartProcess
– wf_engine_bulk.FastForward
– wf_engine_bulk.SetItemAttrDateArray
– wf_engine_bulk.SetItemAttrNumberArray
– wf_engine_bulk.SetItemAttrTextArray
– Requires Product Team code changes to enable this feature

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Digital Signatures Sign Message Body
– What is Signed?
- In 11i.10
 Subject
 Response Attributes
 Result
– No User Interface to view evidence store

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– Digital Signatures
 Unable to sign the complete message
 Ability to view the signed messages for non-repudiation
• Market Drivers
 Security
 Federal or legal compliance

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– Digital Signatures
• What is Signed?
 In R12
• Subject
• Message Body
• Response Attributes
• Result

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Digital Signatures – UI over Evidence Store

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Notification Purge Program
– Purge program enhanced to exclude purging of digitally signed

notifications

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Notification Mailer
– In 11i.10
• One single sequence of pages (train) for Notification Mailer setup. Setup
required user to visit every page.
• DBAs had to review log files to uncover the error if the mailer went down
• Non SSL connection to the IMAP Server

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– Notification Mailer

 No quick way to be up and running with a mailer
 Difficult to setup test and development mailers where a default
configuration would suffice
• Market Drivers
 Security
 Ease of use
 Improved Productivity

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Notification Mailer
– In R12
• Simplified configuration
 Mailer Configuration split up into Basic & Advanced Pages
 All parameters necessary to configure mailer in one page.

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Notification Mailer
– Advanced Setup
• All other parameters for fine tuning configuration available via
Advanced configuration

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Notification Mailer
– Override Address
• Requires user to provide verification code to enable an override email
address. Prevents spamming of unsuspecting user.

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Notification Mailer
– Override Address

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Notification Mailer
– Override Address Verification

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Notification Mailer
– Enhanced error handling for mass failures

• In cases where many users have been set up with invalid email addresses, the workflow directory
service is updated so that it no longer sends e-mails to those users.
– System alerts integration

• When the Workflow Mailer Service encounters errors, it sends a system alert to provide easy visibility
to system administrators and applications DBAs the status of the Workflow Mailer Service so that they
do not have to review log files to know the status of the service.

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Secure Enterprise Search
AppSearch:
leveraging SES in R12
for a
rich user experience
COMING SOON

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What Oracle currently provides
• Fielded, precise, restricted and unintelligent

• Requires significant knowledge of the underlying data
• What is GSIAP? Preferred name? Global UID?

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What the user wants
Simple
Very Fast

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Why Search?
To make business more profitable
• Individual Productivity • Corporate Value

• Spend less time searching, • Lower Training Costs
more time doing
• Wider Access
• Just think and type
• Better Productivity
• Single search with unified results
• Simplified Portfolio
– Enterprise applications
– Personal desktop files
– Collaboration
– Intranet

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Why Search?

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Why Search?

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Search Language is Natural
Use ordinary business language
• Language skills require no training
Show me my open requisitions

• Language correction is automatic
Reqquistns - spelling
Request – synonym
Purchase – alternative term
• Keyword access is even faster
My requisitions
Requisitions
Reqs
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SES in EBS – coming soon!
Ubiquitous Search-based Navigation
Global Search, Results based on

with category user, role and
drop-downs responsibility “For every 1,000 workers,
Enterprises waste $2.5
million per year due to
an inability to locate and
retrieve information.”
IDC, The High Cost of Not Finding
Information
• What is it? • Why?

• Omnipresent, simple, fast, easy search – Increases productivity: less time searching, more time doing.
– Common enterprise application objects (PO, Invoice, – Lowers training costs.
customer, etc.) – Decreases duplicative work, increases collaboration.
– Menu items – Promotes access: increases use of self-service applications.
– Documentation
– Notifications

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Why Secure Enterprise Search?
&
• Large initiative from both Database and Apps
• Platform play competes with Google, MSFT, IBM
– Enterprise-ready (unicode, context, scale, etc.)
– Embedded Search Functionality
• Inheritor of Oracle Text, Verity, Intermedia, etc.
– Managed through common management tools
• Most secure search available
– Secure index and metadata
– Multiple layers of authentication
• Leverages deep understanding of structured vs. unstructured

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What the developer sees today
• SELECT * FROM (select null select_checkbox, ppl.project_id, ppl.name project_name, ppl.segment1 project_number, ppl.name || ' ( ' || ppl.segment1 || ') '
project_name_number, ppl.project_type, ppl.project_status_code, ppl.project_status_name, ppl.start_date start_date, ppl.completion_date
completion_date, ppl.carrying_out_organization_id project_carrying_out_org_id, ppl.carrying_out_organization_name project_carrying_out_org_name,
ppl.person_name project_manager_name, ppl.person_id project_manager_id, ppl.customer_name project_customer_name, ppl.customer_id
project_customer_id, ppl.record_version_number, ppl.template_flag, ppl.resource_id manager_resource_id, ppl.probability_member_id,
ppl.probability_percentage project_probability_percentage, ppl.description project_description, ppl.public_sector, ppl.country_name, ppl.region, ppl.city,
ppl.service_type_code, ppl.progress_status_code, ppl.progress_status_name, ppl.progress_report_end_date, decode(ppl.progress_icon, NULL, '', '<a
href="javascript:document.forms[0].FormEvent.value=''paProgressLink'';document.forms[0].paProjectId.value='''||ppl.project_id||''';document.forms[0].paRep
ortTypeId.value='''||ppl.report_type_id||''';document.forms[0].submit();"><IMG SRC="/OA_MEDIA/'||ppl.progress_icon||'" Border="0"></a> <a
ortTypeId.value='''||ppl.report_type_id||''';document.forms[0].submit();">'||ppl.progress_status_name||'</a>') progress_status,
decode(ppl.progress_icon_active, NULL, '', '<a
ortTypeId.value='''||ppl.report_type_id||''';document.forms[0].submit();"><IMG SRC="/OA_MEDIA/'||ppl.progress_icon_active||'" Border="0"></a> <a
ortTypeId.value='''||ppl.report_type_id||''';document.forms[0].submit();">'||ppl.progress_status_name||'</a>') progress_status_active, ppl.progress_icon,
ppl.progress_icon_active, ppl.psi_column4, ppl.psi_column5, ppl.psi_column6, ppl.psi_column7, ppl.psi_column8, ppl.psi_column9, ppl.psi_column10,
ppl.psi_column11, ppl.psi_column12, ppl.psi_column13, ppl.psi_column14, ppl.psi_column15, ppl.psi_column16, ppl.psi_column17, ppl.psi_column18,
ppl.psi_column19, ppl.psi_column20, ppl.psi_column21, ppl.psi_column22, ppl.psi_column23, ppl.psi_column24, ppl.psi_column25, ppl.psi_column26,
ppl.psi_column27, ppl.psi_column28, ppl.psi_column29, ppl.psi_column30, ppl.psi_column31, ppl.psi_column32, ppl.psi_column33,
ppl.psi_projfunc_currency_code currency_code, ppl.view_psi_columns view_psi_columns, ppl.opportunity_value, ppl.opp_value_currency_code,
ppl.projfunc_opp_value, ppl.projfunc_currency_code, ppl.project_opp_value, ppl.project_currency_code, ppl.report_type_name, ppl.report_type_id,
ppl.security_level, ppl.security_level_name, ppl.project_long_name, ppl.project_priority, ppl.project_start_date, ppl.project_finish_date,
ppl.actual_start_date, ppl.actual_finish_date, ppl.baseline_start_date, ppl.baseline_finish_date, ppl.scheduled_start_date, ppl.scheduled_finish_date,
ppl.target_start_date, ppl.target_finish_date from pa_project_lists_v ppl) QRSLT ORDER BY UPPER(project_name)

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What the developer wants to see
Create Service View Object Editor : Edit NtfSVO
- Entity Objects
+ Attributes
Enable Secure Enterprise Search
Search
- Search
- Alternate Keys
- Domain Value Sets Visibility Level Global
- Dynamic Attribute Groups
- Extra Service Properties Search Plug-In oracle. apps.fnd.wf.WfNotificationsSearchImpl
- Query
Create Service - Tuning View Object Editor:UI Ntf SVO Name WF_ NTF_ DETAIL
Function
+ Service Data Object
Driving Table WF_ NOTIFICATIONS
- Filter Data Object
- Entity Objects - Java View Attribute Attribute Properties Search
- Attributes - Properties Incremental Crawl Triggers
---- Notification Id
---- Row Id
---- Status Business Events
---- Recipient Role Indexed
---- Begin Date Events
---- Due Date oracle. apps.hr. employee . onDelete
---- End Date
Stored Displayed New
---- From User oracle. apps.po. purchaseOrder . onUpdate
---- To User Remove
Secured Using Search Plug -In
---- Subject
- Alternate Keys Date Columns
- Domain Value Sets
Date Column
- Dynamic Attribute Groups Visibility Level Global
- Extra Service Properties CREATION _ DATE New
- Query LAST_ UPDATE_ DATE
- Tuning Data Binding STATUS Remove
+ Service Data Object
- Filter Data Object
- Java UI Function Parameter Name STATUS
- Properties
Help Apply OK Cancel
Help Apply OK Cancel

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Search Objectives
• Easy
Easy to use.
Easy to develop.
Easy to maintain.
Easy to upgrade.
• No SQL -- 100% declarative.
• 30 minutes dev time when security is simple
• Reusable components. Build once, use everywhere.
• Functional
• Optimized for Search
• Full-text, case insensitivity, thesaurus, etc.
• Structured and unstructured
• All personalization features
• FAST

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SES in EBS-- coming soon
Deep, Secure, Fast, Flexible and GLOBAL Search
• Status
• Requirements /Design complete
• Initial coding started ( Beta planned for October 2006 )
• Product Team prototypes underway
• Generic tool to ship in an ATG drop on top of R12
• Applications Commitment:
• Menu Navigation
• Workflow
• iRep
• Documentation
• Applications Interest:
• CRM – Customer, Partners, Cases, Service Requests
• FMS – Items, invoices, purchase orders, journals, budgets, contracts
• SCM – BOL, BOM, transportation, contracts
• HR – Employees, Benefits, Resumes

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SES in R12
Features
• Loosely coupled with Applications

• Architecture supports pluggable search engines
• Rich Web UI
• Indexes built during, or after, primary app development
activities
• Structured and unstructured data
• Applications security
• Accurate results
• Meta data driven
• Extensible renderers
• Easy to customization and/or personalization

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SES Integration in R12
Enabling Semantic Applications
Fusion Middleware
Rich Web UI
Applications Foundation
Semantic Applications
Find my purchase orders for last month
Semantic
Rendering Engine Meta Data Store
Engine
Searchable Business Object Categories

Who created purchase order 23453
Search Engines(e.g. SES)

Forms/HTML UI
Service Beans
Update PO
Create Job EBS
Approve Requisition
Databases

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SES in R12 - Architecture
Admin
Admin Apps
UI
Search Index
Metadata SES Stores
Developer/
Design Apps Crawler
Business
Time UI
Ananlyst
Run Time
End User AppSearch Framework
UI
Semantic Action Data

Engine Controller Security
Data
Pluggable
Source Security
Developer BLAF
(Table, Policy
Region
View, VO)
Internationalization
Applications Content

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Implementation Considerations
– Customers must also purchase and deploy SES

– ATG AppSearch extension released by ATG after Release 12

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Customization and Extensibility Options
– Metadata based: Search should work out of the box; no customization generally
required
– Customization is possible through SES definitions for stop words, “suggested
links,” alternative spellings, etc.
– Customizations through the tool are possible, but given security constraints not
recommended.
– Key flex field support included in the drop
– No changes to any existing APIs

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Q&A Quick Survey Question
Quick Survey Question
margaret.kinuthia@oracle.com
• Q. What will be the plan to migrate customized workflow's post Fusion when BPEL
becomes the underlying technology for E-Business Suite?
• A. Develop a set of guidelines and methodology that the customer can use. There will
be no automatic migration. We are building features into BPEL to support
customizations in a way which provides better life-cycle management.

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lionel.dubreuil@oracle.com
• Q. The latest JDeveloper release can transform any PL/SQL API with a few
clicks into a Web Service. Why don't we deliver with R12 or even with
R11i10 hundreds of Web Services based on all our PL/SLQ APIs?
• We can have hundreds of these services, but would they be really
useful to the customer?
Our PL/SQL Api’s are too fine grained, tightly
coupled (rely on internal ids in many cases) some of
the PL/SQL types are not compatible with Java
types. Best way is to wrap them in a Service Bean.

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yvan.cognasse@oracle.com
• Q. Have we already converted some Workflows to BPEL format in

r12?
• A. No.

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• Q.Officially, Is WF recommended for internal integrations in r12

(human approbation, ...) and BPEL for external integrations (B2B)?
• A. Yes, Workflow is the only recommended choice for internal integrations in
R12.

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• Q.Is it possible in r12 to generate Web Services directly from a

button in Integration Repository?
• Yes. This support however is only available for Service Beans and
XML Gateway.

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• Q. What is the level of integration between Integration Repository and

JDeveloper : Can we browse the Integration Repository as an UDDI from
JDev?
• Integration is via a download utility. No you cannot browse the
repository as an UDDI.

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motoi.nagakura@oracle.com
• Q. Do we have any new feature in WF builder?

• A. No.

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• Q. Where is the digital signature stored for WF?

• A. In a table called WF_DIG_SIGS. We have a UI on top of this in R12 to
search the evidence store.

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• Q. How many web services will be provided in R12?

• A. The base technology to do this exists in R12. What you want to expose as
a web service is under review.

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• Q. Are there any plans to replace workflow with BPEL?

• A. Not for R12. However in fusion there will be no workflow.

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Q&A
That’s all folks !
Thank You
Have a nice weekend
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Personalization Lifecycle Management

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• Oracle Integration Repository

• Option: leverage Oracle Technology

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WSDL, UDDI, Development Tools, Web Services

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Web Services J2EE 1.4 Standard ESB

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Fusion Effect Richer Experience More Adaptable More Interoperable

MONITORING USER INTERFACE PROCESS ORCHESTRATION SERVICE BUS BUSINESS SERVICES

JMX Struts/JSF XSLT/XQuery WS-Policy, SAML WSDL/WSIF

Web Services Mgmt SOAP JCA JMS

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SOA – Service Oriented Architecture

Aspetti dello sviluppo della

•La validità di un'architettura orientata ai servizi (SOA) è conseguenza degli

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• Modularità: giusto equilibrio tra i servizi erogati da ogni singolo

• Contratti di servizio: WSDL (Web Services Description Language) specifiche

• ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) : dorsale di pubblicazione dei servizi ed

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Web Services Mgmt SOAP JCA JMS

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•Caratteristica fondamentale di un Web Service è quella di offrire un’interfaccia

•L’interazione avviene attivando le operazioni descritte nell'interfaccia tramite

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Web Services Mgmt SOAP JCA JMS

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•utilizzano standard e protocolli "open"; i protocolli ed il formato dei dati è, ove

•possono essere facilmente utilizzati, in combinazione l'uno con l'altro

•consentono il riutilizzo di infrastrutture ed applicazioni già sviluppate e sono

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•come utilizzarlo (il protocollo di comunicazione da utilizzare per accedere al

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Web Services Mgmt SOAP JCA JMS

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UDDI Universal Description Discovery and Integration

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E’ un protocollo leggero per lo scambio di messaggi tra componenti software.

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E’ un linguaggio basato sull‘XML costruito per descrivere formalmente i processi commerciali ed

Il linguaggio BPEL permette di descrivere un processo business mediante un insieme di attività,