SOA CLOUD SERVICES -CONCEPTS

What is SOA Cloud Service ?

Oracle SOA Cloud Service provides a PaaS (Platform as a Service) computing platform solution for running the following applications in the cloud:

• Oracle SOA Suite
• Oracle Service Bus
• Oracle API Manager
• Oracle Managed File Transfer
• Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight
• Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
• Oracle B2B

          Advantages -

          Reduce costs-You can reduce IT maintenance and administrative costs. Oracle handles all                   platform provisioning, installation, and domain configuration. Oracle SOA Cloud Service is 

          subscription-based, meaning you only pay when using the service          .

• Create test environments in the cloud. You can quickly subscribe to Oracle SOA Cloud Service to create application test environments in the cloud. There is no need to provision and configure your own servers. Move workloads to the cloud, from cloud to cloud, and from cloud to on-premises environments. When testing is done, you can release your subscription.
• Monitor and manage your environment. You can initiate backups, patching, scaling, and recoveries with minimal configuration from the cloud. These tasks are handled for you by Oracle.

How To Deploy Oracle OSB Into SOA CLOUD SERVICES?

Please follow below url to learn more -

http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/cloud/sscs/DeployingOSBApp_Cloud/sb-app-cloud-deployment.html




Difference between SOA And Cloud  -


Some features of Oracle SOA behave differently in the cloud than in an on-premises environment-

• Because shared disk is currently not available, writing to a shared file from multiple managed servers running in a cluster is not possible. To make this work in the cloud, managed servers would have to write to a file on their own local disks, and then an additional process would have to consolidate the files on one of the VMs.
• File adapter read actions — each managed server only reads from its local directory.
• JMS store and JTA transaction logs must use the Oracle database instead of file stores.
• Connectivity between Oracle SOA Cloud Service adapters and on-premises applications might be blocked by your corporate firewall. Connections can be established by using an SSH tunnel from the application server to which the adapter connects.
• The SOA debugger and automatic SOA composite application tester (unit tester) in Oracle JDeveloper are not supported when connecting to the SOA Cloud Service server.
• Reports are not supported in Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight, installed as part of the Integration Analytics Cluster service type.
• The iWay application adapters listed under Application Adapters (iWay) on Oracle Cloud Adapters Documentation are not supported by Oracle SOA Cloud Service.
• The Oracle Traffic Director high availability features 12.2.1.2/12.1.3 are not supported with Oracle SOA Cloud Service.
• Dehydration does work in the cloud as it does in the on-premises environment as described in Fusion Middleware Administering Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite 12.2.1.2/12.1.3