Oracle Service Oriented Architecture is a MiddleWare Architecture which is deviced to integrate different stand alone applications which needs to communicate with each others.

It can integrate any Business System with minimal development effort. It also help to monitor and manage the enterprise Integration platform in more systamatic and controlled manner.

Above diagram is just a overall Oracle SOA Overview. Today we will discuss about this diagram to help you to understand what actually SOA is.

Oracle Service Bus is a product which is part of Fusion Middleware stack. This is mainly a Service Bus which helps to integrate different vendor systems. In diagram you can see Microsoft, IBM , Oracle , SAP , Siebel and PeopleSoft all are integrate through OSB.

OSB is vendor nutrul , protocol indepenedent. In very simple way we can say OSB is a universal bus where every separate vendor technology can be plugged in easily and once you plug it , immidiately it will start acting with other products.

BPEL : Business Process Execution Language. This is heart of SOA. This is one language which is required to build the webservice in SOA Architecture. The main beauty of BPEL is it is used for Orchestrating the SOA Architecture.

BPMN: Business Process management and Notation is mainly used to design Enterpridse SOA architecture, to design complex approval process workflows and to design service simulation framework.

Business Rules : It will help to define the Business Rules for SOA Architecture with redeployment of Source Code or component. This can be done by business users directly by accessing the browser based Business Rules interface.

Mediator : It will help to integrate the different components inside SOA Architecture and route the messages between them.

Human Workflow : This is used to design the Human workflows for the business processes consists of complex approvals flows.

BAM: Business Activity Monitoring Tool to trap the real time Business Transactions.

B2B : Business to Business product to manage partners network communication in Integration Platform.