Notes

Oracle SOA Tutorial - 101 Subjects/Questions
1. Creating a schema
2. Creating WSDL
3. Define one business process to implement in BPEL
4. Define the different flow types (synchronous & Asynchronous)
5. Define asynchronous webservices
6. Define different nodes in bpel and its implementations & sample use cases
7. Develop the business process in bpel
8. Add extra features - iteration
9. Add Mediator into the business process & define it's importance
10. Enumerate the different uses of mediator
11. Publish & Subscribe events using mediator
12. Develop publish Subscribe events using java
13. Create a java webservice component which can support web service addressing
14. Use this java webservice component in the bpel flow with dehydration store
15. Implement bpel flow with correlation sets
16. Implement bpel flow with error handling
17. Implement bpel flow with compensation
18. Implement bpel flow with different levels of error handling.
19. Error handling in mediator
20. Transactions in bpel and mediator and their various options
21. Sending email/sms from bpel
22. Using File adapter
23. Using ftp adapter
24. Using DB adapter with different usecases and its limitations
25. Using Email adapter and its advantage/disadvantage if any
26. Testing / Debugging bpel flows
27. Deployment of composite
28. Deployment using script & configuration file
29. How to override http url while invoking a partner link
30. How to create temporary variables with generic schema
31. How to implement parallel calls and its use cases, performance tuning tips etc.
32. Using generic schema for making parallel calls in bpel
33. Using XSLT & XQuery in bpel
34. Passing http user headers while invoking webservices
35. Implement webservices security
36. Configure https inbound
37. Coonfigure https outbound
38. Implement bpel flow with inbound & outbound https
39. Explore message level security & transport level security
40. Explore the use of keytool utility
41. Architecting a component based on interface, business and data access layer using SOA/bpel
42. Implementing routing mechanism in SOA
43. What happens if bpel receives and invalid message which doesn't satisfy schema
44. Use java code in bpel
45. Use EJB code in bpel
46. Use socket connection in bpel
47. Use Human interaction in bpel flow
48. Explore the various use cases of using human workflow in bpel
49. Use business rule in bpel
5o. Explore the various use cases of using business rules in bpel
51. Using MQ with bpel as XA and non-XA , its advantage/disadvantage
52. More on Oracle event processing
53. More on Oracle business Activity Monitoring and various use cases.
54. Implement BAM and BAM dashboard
55. More on Oracle B2B and use cases
56. Implement Oracle B2B
57. More on XSLT usage and its various functions in Oracle SOA suite
58. More on Oracle SOA suite hardware requirements & Analysis
59. Performance tuning guidelines for developers
60. Performance tuning and settings for production deployments
61. How to retry a failed order from EM console
62. Can we use same database for multiple bpel installations
63. How do we implement dehydration store or async webservices for an Active-Active setup
64. Capacity planning of Oracle SOA suite, its database size etc.
65. How to do Agile development using Oracle SOA Suite. For example how to accommodate changes in schema
66. How to use the application deployment versioning and its advantages
67. How to deploy a composite which contains only an XSLT or XQuery change
68. Using WLST for performing admin activities in SOA suite
69. Implementing complex flows in bpel. similar to COP functionality.
70. How to migrate a JEE based application to Oracle SOA suite.
71. Using thread local in bpel/mediator flow
72. Is it possible to do logging or java logging inside mediator
73. Oracle SOA suite thread model
74. Oracle SOA suite development best practices
75. Oracle SOA suite deployment best practices
76. Oracle SOA suite recommended production settings
77. Monitoring services using EM console
78. Analysing thread dumps from Oracle SOA suite
79. Resetting the performance reports in EM console
80. Attachment handling in SOA suite for inline as well as MIME
81. Throttling in SOA suite
82. work manager in SOA suite
83. What are security policies
84. How to attach and test security policies using SOA suite
85. How to create test packs in SOA suite and execute it in different environments
86. Naming conventions and coding standards
87. Configure SLA alerts for services
88. How to arrive at workmanager settings for a service
89. How to recover if an SOA domains database is crashed/down
90. Common problems in SOA domains and its solutions
91. What are the changes that can be made in run time in SOA suite
92. Do we need any outage for doing changes in SOA suite
93. Provide the activity names, its description of every properties and few usage scenarios
94. How to use MDS in SOA suite?
95. How to update business rules in SOA suite
96. How to implement a long running process for an Active-Active set up
97. Is it advisable to keep state of a transaction in bpel database
98. List down all the functions supported in bpel, it description and sample usage scenarios.
99. Difference b/w 10g, 11g and 12c
100. How to migrate from 10g to 11g to 12c
101. Comparitive study of bpel implementations from different vendors