Chapter 1. Introduction to Oracle SOA Suite

The Oracle SOA Suite is a large and complex piece of software. In this chapter we will provide a roadmap for your use of the SOA Suite. After a review of the basic principles of SOA we will look at how the SOA Suite provides support for those principles through its many different components. Following this journey through the components of SOA Suite, we will introduce Oracle JDeveloper as the primary development tool that is used to build applications for deployment into the SOA Suite.