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XML Schema is the next generation of enterprise data modeling and, as a developer, you need to know this industry acknowledged standard yesterday. Virtually all major systems development or integration projects today involve some aspect of XML Schema, whether it is only the datatypes and regular expressions, or the full specification. XML Schema Accelerated is the companion workbook to Altova Online Training’s XML Schema Accelerated Series of classes. The modules in this book take you from “know-of” to “know-how” with a step-by-step introduction to the details of XML Schema development using the world’s leading XML development tool: Altova XMLSpy. Developers will appreciate the simple but precise explanations and the comprehensive coverage of the text. Major points are expanded with illustrations, screen shots, examples, and the perspective of Altova’s award winning development team.

Altova’s market-leading XML Schema editing tool, Altova XMLSpy, is used throughout the workbook. Altova XMLSpy’s companion Altova SchemaAgent™, a tool used for complex information architecture work with XML Schema, also makes several appearances. While the content is primarily focused on standards conformant XML Schema development, exposure to the world’s leading XML development tool and its sophisticated XML Schema features is a considerable benefit. The workbook includes references to a large number of downloadable exercises and example files. These files are also bundled with soft copies of the text in both PDF and HTML Help format for fast look-ups. Everything is in place to let you get to work with XML Schema right away, and Altova XMLSpy helps you make it look easy.

This developer’s workbook-format training material is rich in examples, exercises and insights covering the entire scope of the W3C XML Schema recommendation including the built-in datatype library, the structures, regular expressions, and best practices. A working knowledge of XML is assumed. Some exposure to the core concepts of XPath 1.0 is helpful for the chapters on modeling relational constraints. No programming experience is needed to accelerate your knowledge of XML Schema with this comprehensive technical introduction to one of the most vital and important subjects in the XML development world.

XML Schema Accelerated

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Design and build Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions with the Oracle SOA Suite 10gR3

• A hands-on guide to using and applying the Oracle SOA Suite in the delivery of real-world SOA applications.
• Detailed coverage of the Oracle Service Bus, BPEL Process Manager, Web Service Manager, Rules, Human Workflow, and Business Activity Monitoring.
• Master the best way to combine / use each of these different components in the implementation of a SOA solution.
• Illustrates key techniques and best practices using a working example of an online auction site (oBay).

In Detail

We are moving towards a standards-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), where IT infrastructure is continuously adapted to keep up with the pace of business change. Oracle is at the forefront of this vision, with the Oracle SOA Suite providing the most comprehensive, proven, and integrated tool kit for building SOA based applications.

Developers and Architects using the Oracle SOA Suite, whether working on integration projects, building composite applications, or specializing in implementations of Oracle Applications, need a hands-on guide on how best to harness and apply this technology.

This book will guide you on using and applying the Oracle SOA Suite to solve real-world problems, enabling you to quickly learn and master the technology and its applications.

The initial section of the book is aimed at providing you with a detailed hands-on tutorial to each of the core components that make up the Oracle SOA Suite; namely the Oracle Service Bus, BPEL Process Manager, Human Workflow, Business Rules, and Business Activity Monitoring. Once you are familiar with the various pieces of the SOA Suite and what they do, the next question will typically be: “What is the best way to combine / use all of these different components to implement a real-world SOA solution?”

Answering this question is the goal of the next section. Using a working example of an online auction site (oBay), it leads you through key SOA design considerations in implementing a robust solution that is designed for change. Though the examples in the book are based on Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.4 the book will still be extremely useful for anyone using 11g.

The final section addresses non-functional considerations and covers the packaging, deployment, and testing of SOA applications; it then details how to use Web Service Manager to secure and administer SOA applications.

What you will learn from this book?

• Learn to use key technology adapters to service-enable existing systems
• Build implementation-agnostic services using the Oracle Service Bus
• Assemble services to build composite services and long-running business process using BPEL
• Initiate and discover how business rules can be used to externalize “decision points” in a BPEL process
• Incorporate Human Workflow into your processes and use Business Rules to provide greater agility
• Design XML schemas and service contracts for improved agility, reuse, and interoperability
• Examine different approaches either from scratch or by re-using existing logic for building new business services
• Observe the protocols available in addition to SOAP over HTTP for invoking Web Services and the advantages they provide
• Create, deploy, and run test cases that automate the testing of composite applications
• Secure and administer SOA applications using Web Service Manager
• Architect, design, and implement your overall SOA Solution
• Design your Web Service contracts for interoperability and maintainability

Approach

This book is a comprehensive guide, split into three sections. The initial section of the book provides an introduction to the Oracle SOA Suite and its various components, and will give you a fast-paced hands-on introduction to each of the key components in turn. The next section illustrates the usage of the various components of the SOA Suite to implement a real-world SOA-based solution with the help of an example of an online auction site (oBay). The final section covers other considerations such as the packaging, deployment, testing, security, and administration of SOA applications.

Who this book is written for?

This book targets developers and technical architects who work in the SOA domain. The primary purpose of the book is to provide them with a “hands on” practical guide to using and applying the Oracle SOA Suite in the delivery of real-world composite applications.

It presumes basic understanding of the concepts of SOA, as well as some of the key standards in this space, including web services (SOAP, WSDL), XML Schemas, and XSLT (and XPath).

Oracle SOA Suite Developer’s Guide

Customers can use ILOG JRules as a “decision service” for Oracle BPEL Process Manager, providing the means for publishing rules and rule sets as reusable services that result from multiple business processes. This allows users to build flexible service-oriented architectures (SOA) by leveraging existing resources, while minimizing the cost of deploying new applications. Oracle BPEL Process Manager and the JRules-enabled decision service are critical components of a BPM solution, each reducing the cost and complexity of integration projects while increasing their strategic value.

“The global economy is operating in real-time, around the clock and organizations need to ensure their business change is operating at the same pace. That means ensuring systems have the flexibility to respond to changes rapidly and effectively,” said Amlan Debnath, vice president, Server Technologies at Oracle. “ILOG’s support of Oracle BPEL Process Manager provides our joint customers with a combination of flexibility, scalability and performance that is required in today’s business environment.”

BRMS: Essential to BPM and SOA
Business rule management systems (BRMS) combine with business process management systems (BPMS) to achieve the highest levels of process agility. A BRMS allows business policies to be managed separately from the rest of the application, eliminating the need to make policy changes to a BPM application through traditional software coding. This approach also means policies can be managed through BRMS-based decision services as part of a Service-oriented architecture (SOA). The resulting solutions provide for the continuous adjustment of processes in response to changing business conditions and allow business users to maintain the application, lowering IT maintenance costs. The BRMS market leader, ILOG is also the leader in technical integration with BPM vendors, including industry leaders Axway, BEA, EMC-Documentum, FileNet, Fuego, Fujitsu, IBM, Oracle, Vitria and W4. Currently, more than 30 Global 2000 organizations use ILOG’s BRMS products in combination with a BPM solution.

Oracle BPEL Process Manager, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, connects and coordinates business processes that span multiple departments and applications, combining processes and policies contained in disparate packaged applications and legacy systems into one platform. A key goal of Oracle’s BPM approach is to delegate the definition, coordination and execution of business processes to the business analysts – not IT – allowing them to visually define the business flows between applications, departments, business partners and individuals. ILOG JRules extends this functionality by allowing the business analysts to have access to the policies that are ultimately driving the business processes.

ILOG has consistently built on its history of product innovation to make ILOG JRules the industry’s leading business rule software. For the third year in a row, ILOG has been named to the leader quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Rule Engines and ILOG was recently named the BRMS market leader by IT research firm IDC. ILOG’s BRMS customers include eBay, Freddie Mac, Sabre, Zurich American and many other leading Global 2000 companies and governments worldwide.

ILOG is a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork.

About ILOG
ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 2,000 global corporations and more than 400 leading software vendors rely on ILOG’s market-leading business rule management system (BRMS), optimization and visualization software components, to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 600 people worldwide.

ILOG is a registered trademark, and ILOG JRules is a trademark, of ILOG. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
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