Both Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite make it possible to embed Java code as a Service Component Architecture (SCA) first-class citizen through the Spring component implementation type. Thereby the coarse-grained components of Oracle SOA Suite are extended by the much-finer-grained Spring beans wrapped inside the Spring component. This session presents five cool use cases for the Spring component. It shows how and why you would want to use the Spring component and will hopefully inspire attendees to use it for their own projects.

1. Welcome Five Cool Use Cases for
the Spring component of
the Oracle SOA Suite
Guido Schmutz
UKOUG Conference 2012
3.12.2012
BASEL BERN LAUSANNE ZÜRICH DÜSSELDORF FRANKFURT A.M. FREIBURG I.BR. HAMBURG MÜNCHEN STUTTGART WIEN
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2. Guido Schmutz
• Working for Trivadis for more than 15 years
• Oracle ACE Director for Fusion Middleware and SOA
• Co-Author of different books
• Consultant, Trainer Software Architect for Java, Oracle, SOA
and EDA
• Member of Trivadis Architecture Board
• Technology Manager @ Trivadis
• More than 20 years of software development
experience
• Contact: guido.schmutz@trivadis.com
• Blog: http://guidoschmutz.wordpress.com
• Twitter: gschmutz
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3. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. How does the Spring component work
3. The use cases
4. Summary
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4. Different strategies for integrating Java in SOA Suite
Java Embedding in BPEL
Java Callout in Mediator/Oracle Service Bus
Custom BPEL/XPATH Functions
JAX-WS or JAX-RS Web Services (SOAP / REST services)
EJB Services
JMS Adapter/Transport and Message Driven Bean (MDB)
Custom JCA Adapter or Custom OSB Transport
Spring Component
“When Java meets SOA”: https://blogs.oracle.com/rammenon/entry/java_and_soa_suite
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5. SOA Suite 11g Overview
BPMN 2.0,
Shared BPMN
BPEL
BPA
Model Web based customization
Rich End User Interaction
Business View
Workspace Process Portal MS Office
(WC spaces)
BPM Studio Process Composer
(with Business and IT views)
Human
Workflow Business
BPEL BPMN Mediator Spring
(+AMX, AG, Rules
Orgn)
B2B
Unified Runtime
Process Common JCA-based connectivity infrastructure Policy Manager
Analytics Optimized
BAM binding
Proc Cubes Oracle Service Bus
EM console
+BPMN Screens
Repository
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6. Spring Service Component
The Spring Framework is a lightweight container using “plain old Java
objects” (POJOs)
WebLogic SCA enables the usage of the Spring Framework and to expose
components as SCA services and references
SCA extends Spring framework capabilities
• Publish spring beans as SCA component services
• Provide references to Spring beans wired to services of other components
Following types of component integrations are supported
• Java components to WSDL components
• WSDL components to Java components
• Java components to Java components
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7. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. How does the Spring component work
3. The use cases
4. Summary
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8. Hello World
The HelloWorldImpl POJO used inside a Spring component
Lessons learnt: Make sure to compile classes before wiring!
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9. Using the Predefined Beans
The following spring beans are predefined in SOA Suite:
• headerHelperBean – for getting an setting header properties
• instanceHelperBean – for getting Instance ID of composite and
component, name of the Spring service component
• loggerBean – for providing context-aware logging message
You can also define your own Spring beans globally => see use case 3
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10. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. How does the Spring component work
3. The use cases
 Case 1 - Configuration
4. Summary
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11. Case 1 – Configuration: Within SOA Suite
Use Case: Need configuration properties which are changeable at runtime
Within a SCA Composite preferences can be declared
• Has to start with bpel.preference
Use ora:getPreference('greetingMessage')from within BPEL
Restriction: Only scalar values are supported! Can only be accessed from a
BPEL component.
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12. Case 1 – Configuration: Within SOA Suite
Values can be changed through System MBean Browser in EM
 oracle.soa.config > Server : soa_server1 > SCAComposite > your_project >
SCAComposite.SCAComponent > your bpel_process
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13. Case 1 – Configuration: using Spring and JMX
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14. Case 1 – Configuration: using Spring and JMX
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15. Case 1 – Configuration: using Spring and JMX
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16. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. How does the Spring component work
3. The use cases
 Case 2 – Dynamic Routing
4. Summary
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17. Case 2 – Dynamic Routing: Using Spring bean for subscription
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18. Case 2 – Dynamic Routing: Using Spring bean for subscription
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19. Case 2 – Dynamic Routing: Using Spring bean for subscription
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20. Case 2a – Dynamic Routing: Using Spring bean for
subscription
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21. Case 2a – Dynamic Routing: Using Spring bean for
subscription
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22. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. How does the Spring component work
3. The use cases
 Case 3 – NoSQL
4. Summary
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23. Case 3 – NoSQL: What is NoSQL?
NoSQL is a new class of databases
They don„t use the relational data model and thus don„t use SQL
Tend to be designed to run on cluster
Schema-Less - Don„t have a fixed schema, allowing to store any data in any
record
Different types of NoSQL databases
• Key/value
• Column Family
• Document
• Graph
For more info, attend my other presentation: NoSQL Databases for Implementing Data Services –
Should I Care? – Tuesday, 15:10 – 16:10 – Hall 10a
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24. Case 3 – NoSQL: MongoDB Integration through Spring
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25. Case 3 – NoSQL: MongoDB Integration through Spring
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26. Case 3 – NoSQL: MongoDB Integration through Spring
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27. Case 3a – NoSQL: MongoDB Logging Bean
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28. Case 3a – NoSQL: MongoDB Logging Bean
Define bean in the global spring context (custom predefined bean) so that
logging is globally available
1. Add the bean definition here
 SOA_HOME/soa/modules/oracle.soa.ext_11.1.1/classes/
springse-extension-global-beans.xml
2. Add the corresponding classes in either the lib or classes directory
3. Run the ant script and restart server (more information in
readme.txt)
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29. Case 3a – NoSQL: MongoDB Logging Bean
Usage of the custom bean in the global spring context
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30. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. How does the Spring component work
3. The use cases
 Case 4 – Twitter
4. Summary
Please follow me on twitter to get the full experience 
Twitter User: gschmutz
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31. Send a Twitter message to @gschmutz with the hash tags
#ukoug and #springtalk …… to get the link to the slides
@gschmutz #ukoug #springtalk Oracle SOA Suite and
Spring rocks!
@gschmutz #ukoug #springtalk
@gschmutz #ukoug #springtalk please!
@gschmutz #ukoug #springtalk this is really
cool!
@gschmutz #ukoug #springtalk this is so wrong!
Send me that electronic trash!
@gschmutz Cool stuff dude! Pls send me the
link to the slides! #ukoug #springtalk
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32. Case 4 – Twitter: Send an Update Message
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33. Case 4 – Twitter: Send an Update Message
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34. Case 4 – Twitter: Send an Update Message
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35. Case 4a – Twitter: Process Mentioned Messages and send
message with link to slides 
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36. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. How does the Spring component work
3. The use cases
 Case 5 – …
4. Summary
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37. Case 5: so many more ideas …. And not enough time
• Invoking Spring Batch
• Invoking Hadoop Processing
• Groovy Script integration (i.e. XML  JSON)
• Read/Write Excel
• Create PDF
• Submit to Evernote
• Message Enrichment (Mediator cannot do that)
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38. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. How does the Spring component work
3. The use cases
4. Summary
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39. Summary
The Spring component is a nice way to extend the functionality of the SOA
Suite and the other service engines
Use cases for it are endless ….
Only use the Spring component if no out-of-the-box feature in the SOA
Suite exists
Make sure that you test the Java and Spring stuff externally first
Only Spring Framework 2.5 …
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40. THANK YOU.
Trivadis
Guido Schmutz
guido.schmutz@trivadis.com
info@trivadis.com
www.trivadis.com
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Where and When Should I Use the Oracle Service Bus
Tuesday 4th December at 09:55 - 10:55 - Hall 8b
NoSQL Databases for Implementing Data Services – Should I Care?
Tuesday 4th December at 15:10 - 16:10 - Hall 10a
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