Oracle SOA Suite best practices guide

Justin Kestelyn blogged a little while ago about the release of the Oracle® SOA Suite Best Practices Guide 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.3.0). I did not find the time to read the entire guide yet (it has 272 pages in total), but you can easily use the guide as a reference to lookup information about transactions in ESB, file size limits, XML debatching with the File adapter, to name a few of the topics I did read.
The guide consists of two parts:

• Part 1. SOA Suite components. This part is not really about best practices, but explains the ins and outs of different SOA suite components. The term SOA Suite is not completely clear to me: in this case it is not what you download when you click on the link download SOA Suite. Maybe it refers to the concept SOA Suite. It covers Oracle BPEL process Manager, Oracle ESB, Oracle BPM Human Workflow (what a weird name is that???), Oracle Technology Adapters, Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle B2B, but not Oracle rules, Webservices Manager or Oracle BPA Suite.
• Part 2. SOA Suite performance best practices. This is the part that really talks about best practices. It contains configurations and examples from real use cases. Both the problematic configuration and the solution are described. This is really helpful when you are designing your system, or when you are troubleshooting performance. It covers JMS to database adapters, Oracle BPEL process manager, and Oracle Human Workflow.

This guide is not a best practices guide for designing or managing your SOA, but it is definitely the source of information when you are working with Oracle SOA Suite 10g. If the answer is not in there, there usually is a link to documentation that already exists. So apart from the title, I am very happy with this document. It might be a good idea to print it, 272 pages is a lot to read from a screen…