The document provides an introduction to getting started with Oracle SOA and creating an Oracle SOA application in JDeveloper. It discusses basic concepts of Oracle SOA like service-oriented architecture. It then outlines the step-by-step process to create a new project in JDeveloper and add an XSD schema file to define the structure of XML documents. The XSD file created defines the structure for a book catalog with book, subject, and list of book complex types.