SOA & Oracle Fusion Middleware
Articles on Oracle Fusion Middleware such as Oracle BPEL PM, Oracle Enterprise Service Bus, Oracle Business Rules, Web Service Manager and Service Oriented Architecture in general.
AYTS: summary of Oracle’s Approach to SOA
0Recently started the Oracle program: Are You The Smartest. For me it is an opportunity to test my current knowledge level and to extend my knowledge. After every session I follow, I will write a brief summary as part of the preparation for the test. I also follow some of the 2012 sessions. These sessions are not part of the test. I will continue with the summary of the following session.
ARCHITECTS TRAINING – SERVICE INTEGRATION – Oracle’s Approach to SOA (by Jeff Davies) – Guiding and Accelerating SOA Success.This session (not part of the tests) was divided into the following three parts.
- Service Landscape (90 minutes)
- SOA and BPM Suite (20 minutes)
- Service Versioning (30 minutes)
In the presentation 7 questions are answered. The questions and answers are listed below.
Q1: At what level of granularity should I write my services? A1: At all levels. Part of the discussion is loosely versus tight coupling. But this is not really an operational thing. Nobody chooses this on purpose.
Q2: I have 500+ services in production, not one of them is reused. Why? What happened? A2: Have the possibility to find it. Otherwise you can’t reuse it. Or you created highly More >
ADF interaction with business service – an ongoing discussion
0The ADF framework strongly suggests if not dictates a certain application architecture. Through ADF BC (Business Components) – the predominant business service implementation with ADF – applications will typically interact directly with the database, over JDBC Database Connections from a shared connection pool. Developers who create the ADF BC Entity Objects and View Objects will be quite aware of the data model and the database implementation. They will usually write SQL. And the result of their work is substantially coupled with the database. Transactions across multiple data source are very hard to implement in that typical ADF BC scenario because ADF BC talks to a single database and typically controls its own transaction.
When ADF applications are developed in an environment where an enterprise architecture has been laid down, and decoupling is an important objective and service orientation is mandated – then this typical implementation of the business service using ADF BC connecting directly to the database may not be desirable or even allowed.
On one of my projects, we are currently in the situation where we try to determine the guidelines for the implementation of the More >
AMIS vat Oracle OpenWorld samen in speciale whitepaper
0Als sluitstuk van de jaarlijkse Oracle OpenWorld conferentie brengt AMIS een whitepaper uit. Een handzaam document waarin het volledige verhaal van Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is gebundeld.
Een team van AMIS was tijdens de conferentie in oktober nadrukkelijk aanwezig; als sponsor, deelnemer, netwerker en spreker – en als aandachtig luisteraar en analist.
Zeven Oracle-specialisten van AMIS hebben deze whitepaper samengesteld waarin de visie, plannen en aankondigingen van Oracle zijn gebundeld. In het maar liefst 47 pagina’s dik document wordt niet alleen het verhaal van Oracle samengevat, maar geeft AMIS ook haar eigen duiding en waardering van het verhaal.
De whitepaper is hier gratis te downloaden.
Oracle SOA Suite 11g PS 5 introduces BPEL with conditional correlation for aggregation scenarios
0Not too long ago, one of my customers had the following requirement: a file with invoice-entries has to be processed each night; for all invoice entries for the same customer, we would like to start a single BPEL process instance that aggregates the entries and creates a single invoice. To process the entire file, one BPEL process instance needs to be created for every unique customer who has invoice entries in that file. Note however that the Inbound File Adapter knows nothing about the customers or about previously started process instances, it will simply invoke a BPEL process ‘service’ for each line it processes.
The figure illustrates the situation. Note however that the invoice entries need not be sorted, and could well look like this:
BPEL of course offers correlation – the mechanism that allows us to feed messages into already running BPEL process instances. However, before SOA Suite 11g PS5, an inbound operation in a BPEL process – Receive, OnMessage – either initiates an instance (and possibly a correlation set) or it can correlate the inbound message into a running instance. But it cannot do both. So for the customer requirement at hand, correlation as it was is not More >
Build and release OSB projects with Maven
0With Maven we are able to build & deploy OSB projects. The artifacts generated by Maven called snaphosts and releases can be automatically uploaded to a software repository. These versioned OSB jars can then be downloaded by the OSB Servers and deployed ( this can be a Test, Acceptance or a Production OSB Server).
In this blogpost I will guide you through this OSB build and release process, so you can do the same with or without Hudson or Jenkens
For this blogpost I will use this maven test project on github, this also contains a working OSB Eclipse Workspace which you can use for your own testing.
First step is to create a Maven POM file and put this on the Eclipse Workspace or Project level. The Workspace pom should build the whole workspace and the pom in a project only that particular OSB project.
The pom always start with the groupId & artifactId and a version. A normal Maven build will always have an number with snapshot as version, a release will build the OSB project without snapshot and automatically will update the version to a higher number and commits the updated pom.xml with the new higher snapshot version.
For releases we need to provide a version repository and in More >
Configuration of BAM and BPM for process analytics
0Process analytics is an important part of BPM. Metrics and the analysis of metrics provide valuable information about process execution. This information can be used to optimize business processes. During the process modeling phase, Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) must be identified and implemented in the process.
Monitoring can be done using the out of the box provides default dashboards showing the default metrics for process analysis:
- Cycle-time for completed activities
- Cycle-time for completed processes
- Number of active instances per activity, process and participant
- Average and median time for activities and processes
Another option to manage the metrics is Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). BAM allows you to create custom dashboards and real-time alerts. These dashboards allow you to make decisions based on real-time process information. KPI’s can be implemented in a BPM processes easily and can be send to BAM without much extra effort.
In this blog I will provide a detailed description how to configure BAM and the BPM process in order to feed the BAM database with process specific data (business indicators and measurement marks).
Configuration of More >
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