Oracle Enterprise Service Bus

Oracle Enterprise Service Bus is a fundamental component of Oracle's Services-Oriented Architecture that provides a loosely-coupled framework for inter-application messaging.

An ESB service is designed and configured with Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ESB Control user interfaces. It is then registered to an ESB Server. The ESB Server supports multiple protocol bindings for message delivery, including HTTP/SOAP, JMS, JCA, WSIF and Java, using synchronous/asynchronous, request/reply or publish/subscribe models. Currently, the ESB Server does not support Remote Method Invocation.

Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) should not be confused with Oracle Service Bus (OSB). ESB was developed by Oracle. OSB, formally known as Aqualogic Service Bus, was acquired when Oracle bought BEA. The two products are related and interchangeable.

Components

Oracle Enterprise Service Bus contains the following components:

ESB Server
Oracle ESB Control
ESB Metadata Server
Oracle JDeveloper

Features

Oracle Enterprise Service Bus application-integration features fall into the following categories:

Server Capabilities
- Connectivity
  - SOAP invocations services
  - WSIF
  - Adapter services
    - File/FTP adapter service
    - Database adapter service
    - JMS adapter service
    - MQ adapter service
    - AQ adapter service
    - Oracle Applications (OA) adapter services
    - Custom adapter service
- Document Transformation
- Content-Based and Header-Based Routing
- Tight integration with Oracle BPEL Process Manager
Management and Monitoring Capabilities
- ESB Control, the central point for metadata and configuration changes that take effect immediately
- Visual representation of end-to-end service relationships
- Minimal overhead end-to-end message instance tracking and monitoring
- Error Hospital - automated and manual means for individual and bulk message replays

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