Under the hood of Oracle 11g

Client is heavily invested in ALSB 2.6. They are planning to migrate to latest version of Oracle 11g SOA product suite. Apart from normal technical challenges there are strategic questions like a) How to, future proof the migration? b) what will be composition of next oracle soa release? c) Is SCA composition required, does OSB need to be part of it? d) scope of weblogic based web services and adapters ? ... etc.. some obvious technical one are a) how difficult is migrate, are there any tools to available from Oracle..
My recommendation would be migrate to Oracle Webservice
But looks like they are going with Oracle SOA 11g OSB suite which means.

WFC Contracts

I haven't used Microsoft's Web Services stack, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). What I like about it is how defines (codes) webservice. It bring it closer to SOA and separates it from bunch of communication endpoints. It uses contracts inside webservice code, I think this will make programer think more about SOA approach than pure intergration approach.
ServiceContract consist of DataContracts, instead of java beans, schemas, MessageContract instead of messages, OperationContract instead of operation and methods! . A simple naming change can make you ponder why contract word? It good start building your SOA architecture.


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