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This is not an easy book to assimilate because it covers an intricate suite of Oracle infrastructure components. The overarching idea is Software Oriented Architecture. Its implementation under Oracle includes many disparate parts. Like a UDDI registry, global logging, JMS, JNDI and more.
One common idea is the use of MBeans, where these can be configured through a web browser. MBeans are the latest, best version of Enterprise Java Beans and you may want to see how Oracle uses them in the text.
The basic issue is that you might start from a schematic diagram that shows various parts. Each represented by a rectangle with appropriate inputs and output ports. From an output port, you hook this to an input port of another part. Of course, you cannot connect to an arbitary input. The content of the output message needs to make sense for the receiving component. From this top level approach, you can understand a lot of the book's material. The problem is the sheer amount of lower level settings that need to be made, to fully connect up the components in an SOA process or Web Service.
There is good news. The book demonstrates how Oracle has built up various engines, where an engine is just a fancy type of server, to ease the difficulty of doing that hooking up. If you keep this perspective, then it puts the much of the narrative into an understandable context.
Overview
Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator’s Handbook provides detailed explanations for all the core administrative and management activities around Oracle SOA Suite. It provides compact information for end–to–end administration of Oracle SOA Suite 11g.