Why Use a Service Bus? -- Installing and Configuring the Software -- Creating a Hello World Service -- Message Flow Basics -- A Crash Course in WSDL -- Intermediate Message Flows -- Asynchronous Messaging -- Service Types and Transports -- Advanced Messaging Topics -- Reporting and Monitoring -- SOA Security -- Planning Your Service Landscape -- Implementing Your Service Landscape -- Versioning Services -- Performance: Tuning and Best Practices -- Administration, Operations, and Management -- Custom Transports -- How Do I . . . ?.

The Definitive Guide to SOA: Oracle® Service Bus, Second Edition targets professional software developers and architects who know enterprise development but are new to enterprise service buses (ESBs) and service–oriented architecture (SOA) development. This is the first book to cover a practical approach to SOA using the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus tool. And it's written from the “source”—BEA Systems AquaLogic product lead Jeff Davies. This book provides hands–on information to developing SOA–driven applications with ESBs as central components. It also gives strategic guidance on SOA planning, web service life–cycle management, administration of an ESB, and security considerations. Author Jeff Davies is careful to cut through theory and get straight to demonstrating successful use of the product.