Oracle Service Bus

Oracle Service Bus, aka OSB, is an Enterprise Service Bus implementation by Oracle.

OSB, formerly known as AquaLogic Service Bus, was acquired when Oracle bought BEA Systems. Definition :- Oracle Service Bus transforms complex and brittle architectures into agile integration networks by connecting, mediating, and managing interactions between services and applications. Oracle Service Bus delivers low-cost, standards-based integration for mission critical SOA environments where extreme performance and scalability are requirements.

Components

Features

Oracle Service Bus provides:

Connectivity
- - SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 invocations services
  - REST Restful web services
  - JMS
  - Websphere MQ

- - Adapter services
    - File/FTP adapter service
    - Database adapter service

- Document Transformation with XQuery and XSLT
- Content-Based and Header-Based Routing
- Tight integration with Oracle SOA Suite using SOA-Direct protocol
- Dashboard to monitor transactions and interactions between different systems
- Capturing certain events and alerting them.
- Protocol conversion (for standard protocols).
- When required, a custom protocol can be added to the Oracle Service bus to ensure custom protocol conversion.
- Version management.
- Schema validation and exception handling.

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