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Using the Oracle WebLogic Technology Adapters with custom Java – Message Driven Bean (MDB) triggered by File Adapter (part of the story)
3Oracle’s product portfolio contains the Technology Adapters. A set of JCA Connectors that provide a bridge between various technologies – such as JMS, AQ, Database (SQL and PL/SQL), FTP and File System – on the one hand and the world of JEE on the other. The SOA Suite 11g and Oracle Service Bus leverage these adapters to connect to and from these technologies. For example: through the adapters, instances of composite applications can be instantiated through the appearance of a file on the file system or a new record in a database table. And, in the outbound direction: OSB and SOA Suite can call out to PL/SQL procedures, send messages to JMS Topics or an AQ queue and write files to an FTP server.
The technology adapters comply with the JEE standard specification of JCA (Java Connector Architecture). They are deployed as a special type of resource – JCA Adapter – on WebLogic Server. And they can be connected to custom Java components – in addition to their better known usage with SOA Suite and Oracle Service Bus.
I have tried to use the File Adapter in an inbound fashion to trigger a Message Driven Bean when a new file is received in a specific directory. This article describes my More >
Publishing the Product Details WebService based on an Excel based Product Catalog using the SOA Suite 11g File Adapter with Synchronous File Read
1On the one hand: the organization wants to publish a real Web Service, SOAP enabled and all. On the other: the data to be provided by this Web Service is maintained in Excel files and undergoes regular changes by people who are well versed in Excel but absolutely blank when it comes to Web Services.
This article demonstrates how the File Adapter can be used with a Composite application running in Oracle SOA Suite 11g to synchronously read from a file with product catalog details and return information about a single product for which the product identifier was sent to the service.
In just a few, largely declarative, steps, the bridge is built from file based article records to a real SOAP Web Service.
SOA Suite File Adapter Pre and Post processing using Valves and Pipelines
3A quick note on the notion of valves and pipelines that can be configured in File (and FTP) Adapter Services and References (inbound and outbound) to perform file pre- and post processing on the files before they enter the composite application proper as XML or after they have left the composite application, turned from XML to their native format and before they are written out to file.
Valves can easily be created – in a way that reminds me of Servlet Filters – and the pipeline that can be configured with a chain of valves is also quite similar to a filter chain. A valve is custom Java Class that implements one or two specific interfaces. This class is packaged in a JAR file that is added to the classpath of the SOA Suite: the valve becomes part of the generic SOA Suite infrastructure, to be used potentially by multiple composite applications – not necessarily by just a single composite. Note however that use of a valve is configured in the File Adapter binding in every composite application that wants to leverage it.
Valves can be used for several operations. Some examples on the inbound end are:
- filter files: only let through files or lines that are relevant
- split files: More >
The Oracle SOA Suite 11g HttpBinding or another way to call RESTful services from SOA Composite Applications
2I wanted to take a quick look at REST(ful) WebServices and see how those can be integrated into the SCA based SOA Composite Applications that we create with the Oracle SOA Suite. Currently, it does not have the HTTP binding that the 10.1.3 release of the SOA Suite used to have. So what are the alternatives?
In this article, I want to demonstrate a way of calling RESTful (simple http request based) services into a SOA Composite application. I show one way of doing so using the Google Translation Service, a RESTful service described at http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/ and to be accessed at http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=hello%20world&langpair=en%7Cit. This service takes a string to translate and an indication of a source and a destination language. Though maybe not formally resource oriented enough to be called REST-style (or RESTful) service by some, it is a service that does not require SOAP or WS* but simply a HTTP Get request. So at least quite restful.
In this article I will use the work I did and described in the previous article: Leveraging RESTful Services from Java application using Jersey (Introduction). More >
SOA Suite 11g (TP4) – Create Mediator based SCA Composite Application from XSD – write to output file using File Adapter
A quick overview of you can create an SCA Composite Application that publishes a WebService interface, accepts SOAP Messages and write their contents to a file, appending a new record to the current contents. In the center of the composite sits a Mediator. Its interface is based on a WSDL that is created directly from an XSD document that describes the XML messages that have to be processed. The Mediator is then exposed as Service through a simple drag & drop operation. An outgoing file adapter service is created that writes its input in a comma separated record format to an existing file. Finally with another drag and drop, the Meditor is wired to this File Adapter Service and – with more dragging & dropping – the mapping between the incoming XML message and the outgoing CSV record is created.
This is all done using Oracle 11g SOA Suite, Technology Preview 4.
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