Getting Started with SOA Suite 11g

This book is by no means intended to be only theoretical. Yes, it does tell a story and hopefully explains a great deal about the SOA Suite by showing examples and describing the concepts behind and workings of the service engines, underlying standards, and technologies and supporting tools. However, you—and your fingers—will only start to learn for real once you start practicing what is preached in this book. So now is the time to get into gear. It’s time to get yourself a fully operational SOA Suite (version 11g) so you can start developing, deploying, and running composite service applications as well as fully appreciate what it is really like to create a service-oriented application.

This section describes the steps to take for installing and configuring SOA Suite 11g. It only provides high-level instructions, however, because the details can be found in several excellent installation manuals. The book’s wiki provides an online chapter complement with an extensive installation instruction using many screenshots. The complement guides you through the installation of a complete SOA Suite 11g environment that goes with the examples in this book.