Service Bus overview

In this section, we will introduce the key features of the Oracle Service Bus and show how they can be used to support service virtualization.

Service Bus message flow

It is useful to examine how messages are processed by the Service Bus. Messages normally target an endpoint in the Service Bus known as a proxy service. Once received by the proxy service the message is processed through a series of input pipeline stages. These pipeline stages may enrich the data by calling out to other web services, or they may transform the message as well as providing logging and message validation. Finally, the message reaches a routing step where it is routed to a service known as a business service. The response, if any, from the service ...

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