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Hop Onto This Service Bus!
January 03, 2018

Hop Onto This Service Bus!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Service Bus

A few years back our university made a transition to a more service-oriented architecture. We use Oracle Service Bus to orchestrate web services consumed by our applications. Our information services department has to expose data to outside applications and vendors. We do that through web services hosted on Oracle Service Bus.
  • The Oracle Service Bus makes the management of web services extremely easy. Through its point and click interface, the web service endpoints can be easily modified.
  • The administration console provides useful dashboards to diagnose any service issues.
  • Oracle Service bus discontinued support for Eclipse IDE and some of the customization features are now exclusively through JDeveloper.
  • The service bus does not support a concurrent deployment of multiple web services through the web console.
  • Oracle Service Bus was the right choice for us in implementing our service-oriented architecture. It has made management and consumption of SOAP/Restful data much easier for us.
  • OSB has allowed us to control data access to a wide array of data stores through a single service orchestration.
In comparison to Open source products like Apache Camel and Mule ESB, Oracle ESB is more robust and offers better enterprise capabilities. However, the licensing costs are fairly prohibitive and are preventing widespread product adoption. At our university, we had already purchased the Oracle Campus Solutions ERP suite and hence had little problems integrating their OSB as well.