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I was browsing OTN looking for a webinar on WebCentre and I stumbled upon this webcast :

"Oracle Fusion - The Development Experience"
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/webcenter/index.html

Now I'll admit it wasn't what I was expecting but its a really good wizz through how one would build a SOA application using Oracle E-Business Suite, JDeveloper, Portlets and BPEL.

The presenter takes you through the creation of a webpage in JDeveloper using ADF Faces and ADF Business Components, followed swiftly by  :
- finishing off a BPEL process to call E-Business suite then
- adding the declarative code to ADF to call that BPEL process then
- adding an org chart portlet to the main page..
- and finally a demo going through the user experience

All in a all a really good demo which helps people put together their thoughts on how one creates a SOA application using  JDeveloper..


Check it out, Nice Clean Demo... I might use it in some of my presentations... ;-)

I was recently talking to a colleague of mine in UK Presales and we were discussing my recent post on "To BPEL or ESB".. He's main comment was that alot of people totally underestimate the need of Virtualization....

What is Virtualization??? Wikipedia says that there a number of definitions around and it mainly talks about the "OS style" virtualization..

But the following open comment has the right keyword for SOA.
 
"Virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of resources in many different aspects of computing." (src wikipedia)

This is one thing the ESB does well , Abstract the real end-point from the client. That way if the destination end-point changes for any reason (server reassigned, end-point is different depending on the payload etc) then the client doesn't need to know about this.

My thoughts.. What about yours???

Hi all,


Checkout this Best Practice guide on how to virtualize services using Oracle ESB.. After going through this I think most people will start to understand the value of the ESB for virtualizing services...

Oh this article is part of a larger remit of SOA Best Practices for 10.1.3, they can be found here
Nice article Clemens!

Angelo