SOA Suite 11g Project Experience

Jeremy Treague – Schreiber FoodsMike Moran – Zirous

Oracle Fusion Development User Group (FDUG) November 14, 2013

Agenda

Schreiber Foods Overview

Why We Invested in SOA

SOA Suite 11g Architecture / Topology

First SOA 11g Projects

Challenges & Successes

Lessons Learned

Next Steps

“Cheesy” SOA Humor

About Schreiber Foods

• Customer-brand dairy manufacturer• Founded in 1945• Home Office: Green Bay, WI• > 5,700 employee owners (“partners”)• Many domestic and international locations

About Schreiber (continued)ProductionFacilitiesTempe, AZCarthage, MO (2)Clinton, MO (2)Fullerton, CAMonett, MOMt. Vernon, MOShippensburg, PAStephenville, TXLogan, UTSmithfield, UTGreen Bay, WIRichland Center, WI (2)West Bend, WI

DistributionFacilitiesDe Pere, WICarthage, MO (2)Fullerton, CALogan, UTRichland Center, WIShippensburg, PAStephenville, TXWest Bend, WI

About Schreiber (continued)

InternationalProductionFacilities

AustriaBrazilBulgariaCzech RepublicGermanyIndiaMexicoPortugalUruguay

Schreiber’s Products

Process Cheese

Natural Cheese

Specialty Cheese

String Cheese

Cream Cheese

Yogurt

Schreiber’s Market Segments• Retail• Foodservice• Distributors• Chain restaurants• Government• U.S. Military• Schools• Dairy ingredients• Contract manufacturing• Redistribution for

customers

About Zirous• Oracle Gold Partner• Over 25 years in business• Located in Des Moines with consultants throughout the

Midwest.

Zirous Practice Areas

How Zirous can help with SOA• Governance

• Zirous can help set up a governance framework within your organization

• Standards• Zirous can help implement a standards compliant

approach• Value

• Zirous can help demonstrate SOA value proposition• Implementation

• Zirous can help get a SOA implementation up and running from concept to go live.

Schreiber’s Oracle Tech Stack

Database

• Oracle Database (9i-11g)

• Active Data Guard

Middleware

• SOA Suite 11g (11.1.1.6)

• Enterprise Content Management 11g

• Business Intelligence 11g

• Weblogic Server• Data Integrator• Web Center

Portal 11g & Oracle Identity Management

Applications

• E-Business Suite (R12.1.3)

• Hyperion• ADF (Custom

Web Apps)

Enterprise Management

• Enterprise Manager Grid Control 12c

Current Integration Landscape

Change = Slow + Difficult

Applications span many

physical locations

Heterogeneous Technology

Environment

Tightly-coupled

applications (point-to-point integrations)

SOA Suite 11g Topology

First SOA Integration Project

• Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Implementation• Helps decision makers determine how current

conditions on plant floor can be optimized to improve production output

• Automates and standardizes plant processes• Key Benefits

• Improved accuracy, traceability, quality, and food safety

• Reduced change-over time and rework• On-line visibility to SOPs and work instructions

Integration Options

• MES Integration technology options• Flat File• Database• Web Service

• SOA Architecture options• Point to point• Canonical Data Models and EBOs

Integration Approach

• Canonical Data Model and EBOs• Requestor/ Business Service/ Provider• Hybrid approach

• From ERP - Canonical Models• From MES - Application Messages

• Chosen for performance and maintainability• All plants are treated like one logical system

Plant Adaptor & Routing Pattern

Second SOA Integration Project

• Plant lab sample automation project• Sample measurements written to SQL Server

database by 3rd Party application attached to lab instruments

• Used SOA 11g to record sample measurements in Oracle Quality module in real-time

• Eliminated manual work by lab technicians, opportunities for sample measurement errors/omissions

Second SOA Integration Project

Current Deployment (2 Projects)

• 60 composites• BPEL & Mediator• Database Adapter• Event Delivery Network (EDN)• User Messaging Service

• Composite instances per day (Production)• 70,000 (current daily average)• 2 million (projected at project completion)

Challenges

• ERP was upgraded during project (11i -> R12)• Designed for R12, wrote throwaway shims for 11i.• PL/SQL wrappers for 11i converted R12 concepts

• Watch your namespaces!• Especially in XML fragments and XML to/from

String• Duplicate messages (polling DB adaptor)

• Used “distributed polling” for Oracle databases• Used “reserved value” for MS SQL Server• Polling column defined as “bit” data type

Challenges (continued)

Challenges (continued)

• SOA EM Console Slowness / Stuck Threads• Tuned EM Settings • Installed and scheduled SOA purge procedure

• “Dangling composite” issue• Applied SOA 11g PS5 Bundle Patch 7 (11.1.1.6.7)

• Patch 16702086 (see Oracle Doc ID 1485949.1)

Challenges (continued)

Challenges (continued)

We configured these display options to improve EM console performance

• Deployments Hanging in Production• Deploy to a new revision

Challenges (continued)

SOA 11g Successes

• MES Project Phases 1 & 2 have gone live• Integrations have already been reused for a

new project• Problems have been easy to diagnose• Integrations have been easy to enhance/extend• Able to integrate additional plants very quickly• Run time performance has been very good

Lessons Learned

• Expect to make mistakes (allow time for refactoring)• Avoid unnecessary perfectionism• Partner beginning developers with more

experienced developers• Partner developers with strong business process

owners / SMEs• Invest in common services and reusable patterns• Standardize exception handling• Successful SOA projects are more than drawing

pictures

Lessons Learned (continued)

• Have access to a cross-disciplinary team• Work hand-in-hand with the business and

technical people• Put effort in developing sane and flexible data

models BEFORE development• Standardize what you can, wrap what you can’t• Use BPEL as glue not a programming language

• BPEL should be used as an Orchestration language not for complex programming logic

• Use Oracle Support resources proactively

Next Steps• MES plant rollouts• SOA foundation for portal and mobile app integration• Integration technology decision matrix• SOA performance testing / benchmarking• Automate SOA build / deployment process• Evaluate other SOA Suite components

• Human Workflow• Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)• Oracle Service Bus (OSB)• Oracle B2B

• Understand what’s new in SOA Suite 12c• Managed File Transfer (MFT)

Helpful References• SOA 11g Installation, Maintenance, and Administration

Guide (Doc ID 1384379.1)• SOA 11g: Bundle Patch Reference (Doc ID 1485949.1)• Oracle SOA Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/SOA• SOA Community Blog: http://

soacommunity.wordpress.com• Oracle Technology Network http://

www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/overview/index.html

• Oracle SOA Suite 11g Samples https://java.net/projects/oraclesoasuite11g/pages/Home