Preface

This book touches upon all the core areas of administration that are needed for you to effectively manage and monitor the Oracle SOA Suite environment and its transactions, from deployments to monitoring to performance tuning, and much, much more. With the vast features and capabilities that the product has to offer come numerous complexities and challenges in administration.

We start by introducing SOA technologies and navigating Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control 12c. We then focus on the three most commonly developed object types for SOA Suite 12c: SOA composite applications, OSB services, and BAM artifacts.

Moving on, you will become acquainted with the three areas of monitoring that an Oracle SOA Suite 12c administrator typically focuses on: transactions, instance state and performance, and infrastructure. Towards the end of this book, we'll take a closer look at how to configure and administer various components that are part of a SOA Suite 12c environment. Based on the type of composites deployed to runtime, you will learn to manage composite instances, the service engines they are executed on, and the additional platform components they use.