Entries from Antony Reynolds' Blog tagged with 'Fusion Middleware'
Time Travel for OWSM Administrators
Time Travel for Oracle Web Services Manager Administrators I watched the Sarah Jane Adventures, a Doctor Who spinoff, with my family this week in which Sarah Jane has the opportunity to travel back in time to see her parents before...
BPEL Deployment Framework
BPEL Deployment Framework One of the coolest features in BPEL 10.1.3.4 is the deployment framework which makes the job of moving processes between dev, test and production environments much easier. Modifying the bpel.xml file or altering descriptors through the console...
Keeping Current
Getting Latest Version of SOA Suite I keep a VM image with snapshots of various clean installs of SOA Suite. When a new patch set or point release comes out I then apply it to the original vanilla install. This...
Which JDev is Right for me?
Which JDeveloper is Right for Me? Yesterday saw the release of JDeveloper 11g, whilst back in July we saw the release of JDeveloper 10.1.3.4, so now 11g is here do I still need 10.1.3.4. Well the answer is a very...
Calling BPEL from Oracle Service Bus
Calling BPEL from the Oracle Service Bus The latest SOA Suite from Oracle now includes the former AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB), now known as the Oracle Service Bus (OSB). The old Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is still available but...
Transaction Processing in BPEL Processes
Closing the Transaction Just been working with a couple of colleagues on documenting how to migrate transactional processes from WebLogic Integration (WLI) to BPEL and thought I would blog about transaction support in BPEL. First off there are a couple...
Fusion Middleware Roadmap
I spent last week in Redwood Shores listening to product development outline their plans and directions for Fusion Middleware in the light of the BEA acquisition. Today we made those plans public through a webcast hosted by Charles Phillips and...
Throttling Files
Throttling FilesI'm sure everyone has been tempted to grab a file by the throat and squeeze it until it departs for that great filing cabinet in the sky, but that is something to discuss quietly with your psychiatrist. In this...
More on Batch Processing in BPEL
More on Batch Processing in BPELI was asked a follow up question recently on my entry about batch processing in BPEL. The individual had implemented a BPEL process similar to the one shown below.A Use CaseThe process needs to refresh...
Register of Interest
Registering InterestI have been involved in some interesting discussions recently on the use of a service registry. Oracle SOA Suite ships with a limited use license for a service registry and there is the option to upgrade it to a...
More on Time!
More on Time!Seems that dateTime is one of the most frustrating types in XML. I just had a colleague ask how to convert a string to an XML dateTime type. There are a rich range of functions to convert dateTimes...
BEA Completes
Today the EU gave approval for the Oracle acquisition of BEA and so completed the acquisition.Now that the bean counters have had their fun it is the engineers turn. Although individual products will continue to be supported it will be...
Finding the End(point)
Finding the End(point)or The Difference Between Deployed and Undeployed BPEL WSDLsA colleague just complained to me about his inability to create an ADF business object from a BPEL process. He explained that when he pointed the JDeveloper wizard at the...
Patterns and Methods
Patterns & MethodsThought I would share some thoughts on Oracle SOA Methodologies and SOA patterns. These are by no means complete, I just wanted to put down some ways in which SOA Suite can encourage good practise.Methodologies The Oracle SOA...
Stringing Together XML
Stringing Together XMLSomeone just asked how to convert a string into XML. A common use case is to retrieve XML stored as a string in the database. Although you could argue that it would be better to store XML using...
Threading It All Together
Threading It All Togetheror Thread Usage by BPEL ProcessesBased on comments I have received and questions I have been asked it seems that when it comes to thread usage by BPEL processes there are lot of confused people around. So...
Aggressive Cleanup
A Problem of Aggressive CleanupJust been working on an internal proof of concept and came across some very irritating behaviour in BPEL Designer in JDeveloper 10.1.3.3. I deleted a Partner Link and accepted the suggestion of JDeveloper BPEL Designer to...
BEA Joins the Team
BEA Acquisition ThoughtsYou may not be surprised to me hear me say this but I am really excited by Oracles recent acquisition of BEA, expected to complete in October of this year. If you haven't read about it yet then...
Feeding Time
Feeding TimeHow to Feed Oracle BAM from IBM MQ SeriesI'm working with a customer who has IBM MQ installed and wants to intercept messages from MQ and deliver them to Oracle BAM. Thought you might be interested in how I...
A Quick Response
A Quick ResponseReturning an Immediate Response from an Asynch ProcessI just got asked by a colleague how to return an immediate response from a BPEL process created using the template "Asynchronous BPEL Process". Often we want to return some data...
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