Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (Oracle ESB), a fundamental component of Oracle's Services-Oriented Architecture suite of products, provides integration of data and

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s within an organisation and their connected ( "extended" or “virtual”) enterprises.

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This release of Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB) Essentials includes changes in architecture, technology stack, and deployment Oracle ESB is technically an '

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' designed and implemented in an

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's SOA environment; to simplify the interaction and communication between existing Oracle products, third-party applications, or any combination of these. As a

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model for distributed computing it is a specialty variant of the more general client server software architecture model and promotes strictly asynchronous message oriented design for communication and interaction between applications. Its primary use is in

Enterprise Application Integration Enterprise application integration (EAI) is the use of software and computer systems' architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications. Overview Enterprise application integration is an integration framework comp ...

of heterogeneous and complex landscapes of an organisation, and thus enabling its easy management. An ESB service is designed and configured with

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and Oracle ESB Control user interfaces. It is then registered to an ESB Server. The ESB Server supports multiple protocol bindings for message delivery, including

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, JMS, JCA,

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and

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, using

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/ asynchronous, request/reply or publish/subscribe models. Currently, the ESB Server does not support

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. Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB) Essentials should not be confused with

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(OSB). ESB was developed by Oracle. OSB, formerly known as Aqualogic Service Bus, was acquired when Oracle bought

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. The two products are related and interchangeable.

Components

Oracle Enterprise Service Bus contains the following components: * ESB Server * Oracle ESB Control * ESB Metadata Server *

Features

Oracle Enterprise Service Bus application-integration features fall into the following categories: * Server Capabilities ** Connectivity ***

invocations services ***

***

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services **** File/

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adapter service ****

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adapter service **** JMS adapter service **** MQ adapter service **** AQ adapter service ****

Oracle Applications Oracle Applications comprise the applications software or business software of the Oracle Corporation both in the cloud and on-premises. The term refers to the non-database and non-middleware parts. The suite of applications includes enterprise re ...

(OA) adapter services **** Custom adapter service ** Document Transformation : XSLT and MFL ** Content-Based and Header-Based Routing ** Tight integration with

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* Management and Monitoring Capabilities ** ESB Control, the central point for metadata and configuration changes that take effect immediately ** Visual representation of end-to-end service relationships ** Minimal overhead end-to-end message instance tracking and monitoring ** Error Hospital - automated and manual means for individual and bulk message replays

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* http://orasoa.blogspot.com/2008/11/who-is-best-osb-or-esb.html Oracle software Enterprise application integration

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