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 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...
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 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...
Support for SOA Survey I just received an EMail from a student, Galin Monev, at Cork ... I am currently a student of MBS “Information Systems for Business Performance” at University College Cork, Ireland. As a final part of the...
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...
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 & 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...
The Laundry Model for SOAA common analogy for SOA is to describe it as lego blocks. At one level that works reasonably well, but the same analogy holds for object orientation or structured programming, so there must be something more. ...
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 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 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...
What on Earth is SCA?Links to thoughts on SCAService Component Architecture (SCA) is not the sexiest sounding standard out there but it will be an important part of the next release of Oracle SOA Suite, providing a framework for describing...
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...
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...
Instrumenting Human Workflowor BAM Enabling Oracle BPEL Workflow ServicesI was just working on a proof of concept for a customer with my colleague Matt Wright when we had a need to monitor, through BAM, the progress of tasks in the...
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