SOA Suite 12c: Obtaining composite resources such as WSDLs, XSDs and WADLs

In SOA Suite 12c and 11g there are several options to obtain composite resources such as WSDL's and WADL's. In this blog post I will demonstrate some of them and provide some background information. First I'll describe how URL's can be used to access composite resources. Next I'll describe how and when the EM test console and the Webservice test client can be used to gain information about composite WSDL's and XSD's.

SOA Suite 12c: Introducing the REST Adapter

The REST Adapter is an important new feature of Oracle SOA Suite 12c. This new adapter allows easy calling/exposing of RESTful services (see http://javaoraclesoa.blogspot.nl/2014/05/what-is-rest.html for an introduction to REST) based on a WADL or configured manually. Not only does Oracle introduce the REST Adapter, but JSON support is also added in SOA Suite 12c. These features will greatly increase the integration options and flexibility of Oracle SOA Suite. In this blog I'll describe how a RESTful service can be called by using the REST adapter. Exposing a RESTful service will be described in a later blog.

SOA Suite 12c: RESTAdapter: Exposing and testing RESTful services

In my previous two blog posts I have described REST (here) and how the new Oracle SOA Suite 12c REST adapter can be used to call RESTful services (here). I recommend those articles to be read first if you're new to REST in order to better understand this article.

The newly introduced Oracle SOA Suite 12c REST adapter provides options for calling RESTful services but it can also be used to expose RESTful services. These exposed services can use XML or JSON as message exchange format. As described in the previous blog post, JSON support is implemented by implementing NXSD (Native Format Builder schema definition files, more information here) to describe the JSON message and make the transformation to and from XML possible. This XML can then be used as usual by the different components in a composite.