Entries from Antony Reynolds' Blog tagged with 'SOA Suite'
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Building a SOA Development Environment
Building a SOA Development EnvironmentJust had to build a new SOA development environment and so thought I would share with you the steps I went through to create it.PlanningI wanted a SOA Suite 10.1.3.3 install with an Oracle XE database...
A Tale of Two Installs
A Tale of Two InstallsA regular question I get asked is what is the difference between the different SOA Suite installs and which is best for me. I thought I would address that question in this entry. The short answer...
Changing SOA Suite HTTP Port
Changing SOA Suite HTTP PortI just had a call from a colleague asking how to change the HTTP port of a developer install of SOA Suite. He had a default installation on port 8888 and needed to change it to...
Off the Shelf Remarks
Off the Shelf RemarksThought I would mention some of the books on my bookshelf that I find useful time and time again with BPEL and Fusion Middleware. These are generally reference books and are not the best tutorials but I...
What's the Time Mr BPEL?
What's the Time Mr BPEL?Seems that often in BPEL you have a process that has some sort of time dependency. Examples are :Response must be given in 5 days.Product must be shipped to arrive by 12 October 2007.How old will...
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