Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 Developers Guide

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) may consist of many interconnected components. As a result of this, the Oracle SOA Suite is a large piece of software that initially seems to be overwhelmingly complex.
In this chapter, we will provide a roadmap for your understanding of the SOA Suite and provide a reference architecture to help you understand how to apply SOA principles with the SOA Suite. After a review of the basic principles of SOA, we will look at how the SOA Suite provides support for those principles through its many different components.

Following this journey through the components of SOA Suite, we will introduce Oracle JDeveloper as the primary development tool that is used to build applications for deployment into the SOA Suite.