What you need for this book

To develop and test the recipes in this book, an Oracle Service Bus 11g Patch Set 3 (11.1.1.4 or higher) and an Oracle Database11g (XE or Enterprise edition) needs to be installed on the system. For Chapter 8, a full installation of Oracle SOA Suite 11g (11.1.1.4 or higher) including Enterprise Manager needs to be installed as well.

An installation of JDeveloper with the SOA Suite extension (11.1.1.4 or higher) is necessary for Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 7 and Chapter 8.

To use the web-based consoles, either Internet Explorer or Firefox is necessary.

We have developed all the recipes on the so-called "developers" installation of Oracle Service Bus 11g and Oracle SOA Suite 11g. This means that all the software is running on one single Admin Server and there are no additional Managed Servers needed, limiting the resources needed on the system. When we started writing the book, Oracle Service Bus Patch Set 3 (11.1.1.4) was the actual release and we have implemented all the recipes using this version. Keep that in mind when interpreting the screenshots, although most of the time this is transparent and not relevant. A place where it is certainly relevant is when entering the URI of the OSB server (that is, to open the Service Bus console). In our installation, having only an Admin Server, the port we use throughout the book is always 7001. Make sure to change that in case of a different installation.

For testing some of the recipes, the latest version of soapUI needs to be available. In Chapter 3, QBrowser and HermesJMS will be used to test JMS queues and topics.

For Chapter 6, an FTP server needs to be available. The corresponding recipe guides you through the installation of CoreFTP Server. Also in Chapter 6, an e-mail server and e-mail client is needed. The corresponding recipe describes the necessary steps for installing Apache James as the mail server and Mozilla Thunderbird as the e-mail client.

To guide you through the installation of the various components, we have written an extra document only available electronically. To download the installation guide, go to the Packt homepage for the OSB cookbook and download the ZIP file containing the code for the book. Included in the ZIP file is a PDF document named OsbCookbookInstallationGuide.pdf.