New Oracle SOA Book

Are you new to SOA and would like to learn how Oracle SOA Suite fits into the SOA world ? Or are you a SOA professional and looking for an all in one book on Oracle SOA Suite? Then wait no more, after a few months of waiting, Matt Wright and Antony Reynolds finished the Oracle SOA Suite Developer’s Guide book and now available in the market.

I was assigned to research on how to integrate Oracle Retail application and our client’s legacy system. I have done some research and found some online tutorials in Oracle website but I found most of them are using the BPEL Designer plugin of Eclipse. I have no luck of finding this plugin so I installed JDeveloper to create simple BPEL modules. Good thing Oracle SOA Suite Developer’s Guide book came in to save my time finding the equivalent steps in the tutorial to JDeveloper because thoughout the book, the examples are using JDeveloper.

I’m familiar to basic SOA concepts because I have been reading IBM’s SOA Redbook in the past. With my limited time to read the whole book, I jumped reading Chapter 3: Service-enabling existing systems which covers integration of new and legacy system. As most system designers and architects know, to integrate a legacy system to the another application, the integration modules are usually reading files to transfer data from one system to another.

Chapter 3 covers File Adapter for reading local files, FTP adapter for remotes files and DB Adapter which is use to data manipulation in the database. The steps are easy to follow and you will not get lost because there are screenshots provided to guide you.

For full details of the book, please visit the official book page in PackPub website.

Time to Upgrade Your Skills Towards SOA

SOA is still not mature enough but it’s evolving fast as the software vendors continues to innovate and improve their SOA products and strategies. According to experts, SOA will be mature in 6 years so it’s time for the techies to upgrade their skills and move towards SOA skills such as Java, .NET,  SOA suite.