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Service Configuration 4-1
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Service Configuration
This section discusses the service configuration and resource organization capabilities provided by Oracle Service Bus. It highlights features that support service discovery
and change management. This section is intended for IT deployment specialists who are responsible for configuring services in an SOA. This section includes the following
topics:
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Section 4.1, Resource Organization
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Section 4.2, Change Management
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Section 4.3, Service Discovery
4.1 Resource Organization
Oracle Service Bus has a robust resource configuration and organization framework for creating, organizing and configuring resources and ensuring semantic integrity
between resource dependencies. It provides features to rapidly test, deploy, and, reverse resource configuration updates if required.
4.1.1 Project Explorer
Oracle Service Bus has a built-in Project Explorer that allows logical grouping of Oracle Service Bus entities, allowing developers and administrators to better organize
related parts of large development projects. For more information, see Working with Projects, Folders, and Resources in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide
for Oracle Service Bus.
4.1.2 Projects and Folders
Oracle Service Bus resources can be organized into separate projects. Projects are non-hierarchical, disjointed, top-level grouping constructs. All resources such as
services, WS-Policies, WSDLs, XQuery transformations, etc. reside in exactly one non-overlapping project.
Resources can be created directly under a project or be further organized into folders. Folders may be created inside projects or inside other folders and are similar to
directories in a file system, with the project level being the root directory. Descriptions can be added to all projects and folders to further enhance navigation.
Figure 4–1 shows the project and folder views in the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console.
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Figure 4–1 Project Explorer View of Oracle Service Bus Projects and Folders
Resources can be moved between projects or folders and can be renamed. Any Oracle Service Bus resource, project or folder can be cloned to create a copy of that resource
with the specified target identity. Cloning a project or folder copies all artifacts in the project or folder to a different location.
Resources that are located in one project can reference and use resources that are defined in other projects. Dependencies are preserved when resources are renamed
and moved. All references to a renamed or moved resource are automatically adjusted. An additional capability of the Project Explorer is the ability to track which resources
outside the current folder are referenced by resources residing in it. Viewing these references gives both the location of the referenced resource in the format of project
namefolder nameresource name and the type of resource referenced. For more information about referenced resources, see
Section 4.2.5, Tracking Dependencies.
4.1.3 Resource Cache
