Where the SOA Suite fits

You may have noticed that we have deliberately stayed clear of saying which parts of the Oracle SOA Suite are used for which areas within our architecture, and there is a good reason for this. Firstly, we wanted to produce a meaningful architecture that clearly demonstrated the key objectives and considerations of each layer, rather than just a piece of marketecture.

Secondly, it's not a simple one-to-one mapping, as within most layers, we have multiple options available when it comes to implementation.

The first step is to map our architecture to the SOA Suite, which is to determine which layers should be implemented as SOA composites and deployed to the 11g Service Infrastructure and which layers should be implemented ...

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