Configuring and administering binding components and JCA Adapters

After deploying the composite to the SOA Infrastructure (see Chapter 2, Management of SOA Composite Applications for details regarding deployment), one of the main things to address is how to manage and configure properties for binding components packaged inside them. Binding components are network protocols and mechanisms connecting your composite to external services, applications, and technologies (such as messaging queues, databases, web services, and so on). Binding components in Oracle SOA Suite 11g are of two kinds:

• Services: Services provide an entry point to the composite and advertise their capabilities to external applications by exchanging their service metadata information through a WSDL file. The service bindings define how a client application can invoke a composite. Examples of service bindings from the sales order composite in the preceding screenshot are an HTTP-based web service, JCA-based file polling...