Imagine you are performing a mapping in Oracle Service Bus where a field in your source message may contain one of a number of different values which gets mapped to one of a number of different values in the target message, e.g. you might need to map airport names to airport codes:

Oracle Service Bus (and the other products in the SOA Suite) is designed to help you solve the majority of common integration scenarios without writing any code. However, as one customer pointed out to me recently:

“You may not have to write any code, but you still need to write XPath which is just as complicated!”

Following on from my last post on why IT evolution is a bad thing I'll go a stage further and say that far too much time is spent on designing the internals of elements of services and far too little on their externals. Some approaches indeed claim that working on those sorts of contracts is exactly what you shouldn't do as its much better for the contract to just be "what you do now" rather

The webcast of the SOA and Integration strategy was a few days later available as the overall strategy. You can find the entire webcast here.
SOA Platform
The combined Oracle Sun solution focus boils down to the following bullets:

Oracle SOA Suite continues as the strategic product.
Sun JCAPS continues to be supported and maintained
GlassFish ESB continues as [...]