Oracle International Corporation

Nan Xie

Vebhhav Singh

Annaji Garimella

Purushotham Kola

Thirupathi Reddy Annadi

Mark James Glenn Craig

Ravindran Sankaran

Arvind Srinivasamoorthy

Veshaal Singh

Raghavateja Kalapatapu

Anping Wang

James Dang

A framework (referred to herein as Application Integration Architecture, or AIA) that formalizes and orchestrates activities in an SOA development lifecycle. In one set of embodiments, AIA can capture development-related information in a shared data store and cause the information to flow in an automated or semi-automated manner from one lifecycle phase to the next as the lifecycle progresses. This information flow can, in turn, facilitate automations at each lifecycle phase for the responsible stakeholders (e.g., solution architects, developers, installation developers, etc.), thereby enforcing SOA best practices, enhancing development productivity, and ensuring the quality of the final SOA deliverables.

Techniques for managing functional service definitions in an SOA development lifecycle

Techniques for rapid deployment of service artifacts

Techniques for automated generation of service artifacts

Techniques for conditionally deploying artifacts of a software application (e.g., a SOA application). In one set of embodiments, a deployment plan can be generated that specifies a list of artifacts to be deployed for the application. At a time of deployment, the deployment plan can be retrieved and processed by an installation module to carry out the deployment process. As part of this processing, the installation module can determine, for each artifact in the deployment plan, whether the artifact is associated with a user-defined condition. If such an association is found, the installation module can evaluate the user-defined condition and execute conditional deployment logic for the artifact based on the outcome of the evaluation. In this manner, the deployment activities to be carried out for the application can be dynamically modified at the time of deployment.

Techniques for conditional deployment of application artifacts

Techniques for automated generation of deployment plans in an SOA development lifecycle

Inbound processing of web service request messages at runtime is enhanced by providing validation of the message structure against corresponding schema, at an intermediary web service server rather than at the web service level (e.g., entirely by a web service application). Hence, there is minimal delay in responding to the client upon determining an invalid message structure, and unnecessary processing of invalid messages by the web service application is avoided.

Runtime validation of messages for enhanced web service processing

A web services system provides web services interfaces to applications having native interfaces with different types of synchrony. The web services interfaces can have the same or different type of synchrony than the underlying application. The web services layer translates a web services request from a client to corresponding function calls to applications. Upon receiving a response from an application, the web services layer translates the response back to a web services format and forwards it to the client. A naming convention is used to define the names of the data types and operations in the web services interface corresponding with data types and functions of the application. A function prefix can be used to specify a namespace in the web services interface unique to the application. A web services namespace is assigned to tokens so that requests for asynchronous web services are diverted to a general web services routine.

Web services layer synchrony in relation to the business layer synchrony

A computer-implemented method of testing interoperability of a web service against a plurality of web services tools may include steps of providing a web services description language file (WSDL) that describes the web service to be tested; selecting at least one of the plurality of web services tools; generating and compiling sets of proxy files for each selected web service tool based upon the provided WSDL file and loading the generated and compiled proxy files into memory; generating an XML test case for each of the generated and compiled sets of proxy files, the XML test case including dummy variables for each operation of the provided WSDL file; populating the generated XML test case with values for at least some of the dummy variables, and invoking a targeted web service from a selected client platform using the populated XML test case and providing results for each invocation.

Computer-implemented methods and systems for testing the interoperability of web services

A web service broker transforms, at runtime, output data from client applications to the input data form required by various web services. Such transformations are based on data and/or parameter mappings that are accessible to the broker. Further, the broker accesses and invokes particular web services in the manner required by the web services. Such invocations are based on information regarding the access style, such as RPC style of communication, and encoding, such as SOAP, associated with respective web services. The broker provides a generic framework in that it is capable of supporting transformation of different data and data forms from many different applications to respective data that many different respective web services can use.

Techniques for managing interaction of web services and applications

Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with prioritizing network traffic are described. One exemplary method embodiment includes receiving a notice from a computer component to prioritize network traffic associated with a selected service. Network communications are inspected to identify priority network traffic associated with the selected service. Priority settings can then be dynamically reconfigured in the priority network traffic.

System and method of dynamically providing priority for network communications

Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with identifying network communications of services are described. One example system embodiment includes a service identification logic configured to monitor execution of software of an application server and identify services being processed. The service identification logic can further include a logic configured to identify network communications associated with an identified service. The example system may also include a notification logic configured to notify one or more network devices to provide priority processing for the network communications associated with the identified service.

System and method for identifying network communications of a priority service among a plurality of services

A technique is described in which a web service provider is able to specify that messages related to business transactions with the web service includes trading partner information. For example, a provider may specify such requirements in a WSDL description of the relevant web service and may register the description with a UDDI registry. The trading partner information is regarding business transactions between the requesting party and the provider and is related to pre-established trading partner relationships and associated agreements and processes. Such trading partner information typically includes information that identifies, for example, the requesting party and the type of transaction. Consequently, the provider can determine whether the received request originates from an established trading partner and whether the requesting party is entitled to conduct the requested business transaction. Hence, application-level security is provided to electronic business transactions. Furthermore, enhanced processing of the business transaction results from being able to access, based on the received trading partner information, more elaborate data models associated with electronic transaction processes established between the trading partners.

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