1. Oracle SOA Curriculum
In Short….
1. Service-Oriented Architecture Concepts
2. SOA Composite Applications
3. Adapters
4. Orchestrating Services with BPEL
5. Advanced BPEL Concepts
6. Working with Mediator Components
7. Human Workflow
8. Oracle Business Rules Concepts
9. Secure Services and Composite Applications
10. Monitoring and Managing SOA 11g Deployment
This is a lengthy Curriculum.
1. Introduction to SOA and Oracle SOAsuite11g
• Over view of SOA and Oracle SOA suite
• SOA Benefits
• Using Oracle SOA suite to adopt SOA
• Creating SOA Composite Services
• Using Mediator
• Using BPEL
• Using Business Rules
• Deploying SOA Application
• Benefits of Oracle SOA Suite
2. XML usage in SOA
• Overview on XML
• Overview and Concepts on XSD (XML Schema Definition)
• Names spaces, importing XSD files

2. • Defining simple and Complex element Type in XSD
• Using Regular expressions while defining elements
• Overview on XSLT, XPATH
• XSLT functions
• WSDL
• Canonical Data Model.
3. Oracle MDS
• MDS Overview
• Deploying re-usable XSD, WSDL, DVM , EDN, fault-policies files to MDS
Repository.
4. Using Oracle SOA Mediator
• Introduction to Mediator
• Creating Mediator flow
• Creating SOA composite using JDeveloper
• Simple Hello world composite using Mediator
• Complex composite using Mediator
• Adding WebService to SOA composite
• Adding Adapters services to SOA Composite
• Specifying Routing rules
• Create and XSL file for Data Transformation
• Add Filter expressions to Routing rules
• Deploying composite to SOA Server
• Testing composite from SOA Enterprise Manager.
5. Oracle BPEL
• Introduction to BPEL
• Creating SOA composite with BPEL
• Simple Hello world SOA Composite with BPEL

3. • Complex BPEL project
• Overview of Synchronous, Asynchronous and Partial Processing BPEL
• BPEL Interaction patterns
• BPEL Activities: Assign, Transform, Flow, For Each, Invoke, Reply, Pick,
Replay, Pick, Throw, Exit, While, If, Exit, Wait, Dehydrate and other activities
in BPEL
• Invoking Webservices (Partner links) in BPEL
• Conditional branching Using Switch Activity.
• Business Rules Integration with SOA Composite
• Handling Business, Runtime Faults/Exceptions
• Creating Human task Workflow
• Using Human Task Activity
• Human task display forms auto generation and accessing from Work list
application.
• Adapters (DB Adapter, File Adapter, JMS Adapter, AQ Adapter, Oracle Apps
Adapter)
• SOA Fault policies
• Correlation sets usage in SOA Composites
• Compiling and Deploying SOA composite using JDeveloper
6. Oracle SOA Fault Handling
• SOA fault policies
• Introduction to a Fault Handler
• Introduction to BPEL Standard Faults
• Introduction to Categories of BPEL Faults
• Using the Fault Management Framework
• Catching BPEL Runtime Faults
• Throwing Internal Faults
• Returning External Faults
• Using a Scope Activity to Manage a Group of Activities

4. • Using Compensation After Undoing a Series of Operations
• Using the Terminate Activity to Stop a Business Process Instance
7. Event Delivery Network (EDN)
• EDN overview and benefits
• Publishing messages using EDN
• Subscribing to END Messages.
8. Composite Sensors
• Introduction to Composite Sensors
• Adding Composite Sensors
• Monitoring Composite Sensor Data During Runtime
9. Business Rules
• Introduction to Oracle Business Rules
• Setting File Repository
• XML Schema Import into Data model using Rule Author.
• JAXB classes Generation
• Defining the Variable in Data model
• Defining RL functions in Data model
• Creation of Business Rules using Rule Author.
• Invoking RL functions form Business rules
• Syntax checking, Testing Business Rules in Rule Author.
10. Monitoring/Administration of Oracle SOA Suite
• Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
• Connection pool setup using Weblogic console
• Data sources Configuration
• DB Adapter, JMS Adapter, AQ Adapter, Apps adapter configuration
settings

5. • SOA Fault Recovery form OEM console
• Start/Stop SOA Managed Server using Weblogic Console
• Checking Weblogic logs for debugging and tracing errors

6. • SOA Fault Recovery form OEM console
• Start/Stop SOA Managed Server using Weblogic Console
• Checking Weblogic logs for debugging and tracing errors