Chapter 10. oBay Introduction

By now, you should have a good initial understanding of all the key components that make up the Oracle SOA Suite. Typically we find that once someone has an initial grasp of the various components, one of the next questions we get is:

"What is the best way to combine/use all of these different components to implement a real world SOA solution?"

Answering this question is very much the focus of this section. To do this, we have built a complete, albeit, relatively small SOA solution designed for an online auction site for a fictional company called oBay(the o stands for Oracle).

Each chapter in this section tackles specific areas that need to be considered when developing an SOA-based solution, such as the design of the service contract, validation, error handling, message interaction patterns, and so on. To highlight and demonstrate key design considerations, each chapter uses examples based on key parts of the oBay application to illustrate...