By srikant.subramaniam on October 8, 2009 4:29 PM
Oracle Fusion Middleware enables you to build services that enable interactive dashboards, collaboration, data transformation, and integration with applications. In the Oracle Fusion Middleware for Applications hands-on labs, experience firsthand how you can build new services and integrate with applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel applications using Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Application Development Framework and Oracle Application Integration Architecture.
By srikant.subramaniam on October 19, 2009 2:54 PM
Oracle Business Rules (OBR) is a component of both SOA Suite and BPM Suite and offers seamless integration with BPEL processes in SOA applications via rules and decision tables. This integration is achieved via the use of JDeveloper as the single tool for modeling business terms, rules and processes.
A business rule has an IF part and a THEN part. The IF part tests one or more business terms. If the tests pass, one or more actions are performed in the THEN part, such as adding or changing business terms, setting an appropriate flag etc. For example, suppose a rule states enable security check only for employees who are resident in the USA.
Using OBR Designer, you can model this rule as shown:
In this tutorial, we show how to integrate OBR into a PeopleSoft SOA application that retrieves employee information via a PeopleSoft CI lookup. The employee's country of residence is then extracted from the output and a business rule is invoked to set the SecurityCheck flag if required.
The supporting files needed to run the tutorial are here. The tutorial assumes these files will be extracted to c:\FMW4Apps\LabFiles\PeopleSoft.
By srikant.subramaniam on October 20, 2009 11:56 AM
The Web Service Data Control (WSDC) in ADF 11g provides an easy and convenient interface to incorporate web services in an ADF application. The data control abstracts the implementation of a business service (such as a web service) thus providing a consistent mechanism for the ADF pages to access the data.
This tutorial shows how to develop an ADF 11g based UI for PeopleSoft HCM using WSDC. The ADF client invokes PeopleSoft CI using the appropriate web service and displays the resulting output records in a JSP page.
The supporting file (RefreshCondition.txt) used to specify the iterator properties (on page 26 of the the tutorial) is located here.
By srikant.subramaniam on October 21, 2009 12:06 PM
We are seeing rapid growth in the adoption of concepts like Business Process Management (BPM), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 by many IT departments to reduce complexity and to evolve to the next generation of IT capabilities and services.
Hence, in this customer (NetApp) case study presentation, we address:
- How users of Oracle applications (such as PeopleSoft) can further improve agility, business value delivered by IT and reduce total cost of ownership.
- How to optimize and extend the self-service capabilities of PeopleSoft HR module, using a SOA composite application. We present an actual customer implementation for an end-to-end solution and highlight key considerations for human workflow design.
- How to bridge the gap between business and the IT users: business analysts are unable to understand the implementation life cycle and IT developers make inaccurate interpretations of the process models. Oracle BPM bridges this gap by enabling the creation of standards based processes and providing a tight integration with Oracle BPEL PM and JDeveloper, via the shared business process repository.
