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bination thereof. They are the building blocks used to construct SOA com-
posite applications. The service infrastructure, comprising a unified platform
for services, processes, and events, provides the internal message transport
infrastructure capabilities for connecting service components and enabling
data flow. Service engines, such as the BPEL Process Manager Engine, Me-
diator Engine, and BPM Engine, process messages received |from the ser-
vice infrastructure.
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Oracle Service Bus provides a framework for lightweight, scalable, and reli-
able service orchestration designed to connect, mediate, and manage inter-
action between heterogeneous systems and services. It is widely adopted in
all major SOA implementations, and is used to transform protocols and mes-
sages between different components.
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Oracle
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
is used to build interactive
real-time dashboards and proactive alerts for monitoring business processes
and services, giving business executives and operation managers the in-
formation they need to take corrective action, if the business environment
changes.
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Oracle
Business-to-Business (B2B) Integration
enables integration with
trading partners by using industry standard protocols such as RossettaNet,
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
, and so on, to provide a solution for es-
tablishing online collaborations and automated processes.
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Oracle
Complex Event Processing (CEP)
provides a mechanism to pro-
cess multiple event streams to detect patterns and trends in real time, and
provide enterprises the necessary visibility via BAM. Oracle CEP is designed
to look across discrete event streams to find only the important events/trends
within a given time frame, and to detect missing events and events that
should have occurred but did not.
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Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM)
is used to govern interactions with
shared services through security and operational policy management and
enforcement to ensure service reuse remains under control. Starting with the
Oracle SOA Suite 11g release, OWSM is a component that is built into the
suite. Every Oracle SOA Suite 11g domain has this component built-in by de-
fault to facilitate the management of web services.
Oracle SOA Suite 11g relies on 100 percent standard integration approaches us-
ing BPEL, BPMN, JCA, J2EE, and web services, and hence extending its reach
