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Book Review: Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer’s Cookbook – Vivek Acharya (Packt Publishing, 2012)
0Recently I was invited to read and review a recent publication on an important component of the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack: BPM Suite 11g. This book is titled Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer’s Cookbook. It was written by Vivek Acharya and has been published by Packt Publishing. It contains close to 500 pages. The book homepage on the Packt Web Site is: : http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-bpm-suite-11g-developers-cookbook/book.
This article provides an overview of this book and my first impressions of it. In short:
The breadth of the book is impressive. Vivek has done a great job in describing many topics and aspects of the BPM Suite story. Along with the impressive scope, he also manages to provide a lot of details and in depth descriptions, for example in his discussion of business indicators and BAM, configuration of fault policies and on the development of User Interfaces with ADF to support Human Tasks. He uses a single case throughout the book – a case that is clear and comprehensive. Not too simplistic to become trivial and neither too complex to overburden the reader. Both business and process analysts as well as developers will benefit from this book – although I think More >
Jekyll and Hyde or The case of the multiple identity syndrome – Using Identity Cross References in Oracle 11g SOA Suite
1The 11g SOA Suite brings us the Service Fabric that has messages flowing from one SCA Service Component to the next – Mediators and BPEL processes are called from inbound adapter services or external consumers and may call out to references to external providers or outbound adapter service. In this idyllic world, much of the work actually going on is the mapping of messages from one (service’s) domain to the next. Of course we try to converse as much as possible in terms of canonical message structures, but sooner or later we come to the boundary of our domain and need to transform again to some domain or service specific message structure. Domain Value Mapping
In addition to the mapping of the message structure, we usually have to put up with some level of value mapping as well: different domains frequently use -slightly or hugely -different labels for the same concept. One domain may use M, F and N for gender whereas another has MALE, FEMALE and UNKNOWN or even MAN, WOMAN and UNDECIDED. Messages that have to convey the gender will have to abide by the vocabulary in the target domain. That means that frequently message have to undergo domain value mapping in addition to plain More >
Proces email with the new UMS adapter of SOA Suite PS5
2With the release of Soa Suite Patch Set 5 we can now try out the new UMS adapter. UMS stands for User Messaging Service but in this case it only supports email. The UMS adapter allows you to listen for new mail or send a mail from a service component. Combined with BPEL it’s now relative easy to process email bodies or attachments. Remember that in PS5 the UMS adapter is still a preview version so you can’t claim support and you can only use the Oracle forums for your ums questions.
It’s important to know that the UMS adapter does not work like a JMS topic or like EDN. So you can’t have two UMS adapters which are polling on the same mailbox.
In this blogpost I will show you how to setup and configure UMS, Listen plus send a mail and handle attachments.
We start with configuring our SOA Suite domain.
1st step is to copy two UMS libraries to your SOA Suite domain folder. Copy sdpmessagingclient.jar and sdpmessagingcommon.jar to the lib folder of the SOA Suite WebLogic Domain. You can find these jars at MiddlewareHome\Oracle_SOA1\communications\modules\oracle.sdp.client_11.1.1
2nd Install the UMS resource adapter. Open the WebLogic Console and deploy the UMSAdapter.rar, you can More >
OBUG 2012 – Live Fusion Middleware Application Development Demo by all star team
0Next Tuesday, 24th of April in the MECC in Maastricht during the Oracle Benelux User Group conference, an all star team of Oracle Fusion Middleware specialists will present and perform a very special session: a live and interactive application development demonstration. This session is planned in two parts: 11.00-12.45 and 14.30-15.45.
Many articles and presentations discuss various parts of Oracle Fusion Middleware, such as ADF or SOA Suite, WebCenter or Oracle Service Bus. Usually they do so in an isolated fashion and not seldom only in a theoretical (‘slideware’) fashion. In this very special session, attendees will see at close range how it all comes together and what steps are necessary to create a real end-to-end FMW application. A team of brave developers (doing database, ADF, SOA Suite, OSB and BPM) will develop an end-to-end Fusion Middleware application over the course of the afternoon. Their work will be monitored live on a number of big screens, while a moderator solicits audience suggestions for functional requirements and explains what is being done.
(1/2) Using the MetaData Services (MDS) in a SOA environment
4Before I talk about the advantages en methods of using the MDS, I want to introduce myself, because this is my first public post on the AMIS technology blog. My name is Robert van Mölken and I’m 26 years old. I’m now actively working, as a SOA Consultant / Developer, for nearly 5 years. My main toolstack is SOA Suite (3,5 years 10gR3 and 1,5 years 11gR1), but also have experience with opensource BPEL / ESB alternatives from Apache.
In many big SOA application all the composites use the same canonical1 data model (message definitions) for their service contracts. Many entities and elements (complex- and simple types) are reused. Therefor it is not a good choice to use a local copy for the service contracts (WSDLs) and message definition files (XSDs) in each SOA composite project.
If you do so and a mayor (common) part of the message definitions changes then you need to update all the SOA composite projects, where these files are used, with the new version of the files. Oracle created the MDS to solve this issue. MDS stands for MetaData Services. The MDS holds all kind of xml-based files, like WSDLs, XSDs, Domain Values Maps but can also hold fault policies and event definitions More >
Developing and deploying Java Embedding activity in BPEL 2.0 in SOA Suite 11g calling a custom Java Class that has dependencies on 3rd party libraries
0Java Embedded activity can call a custom Java class that relies on 3rd party Java libraries. This means that a lot of existing functionality from the Java open source community is at the disposal of the BPEL developer. This article shows a simple example of developing and deploying a BPEL process that uses Java Embedded Activity that calls a custom Java Class that uses Apache HttpClient to make Http POST calls. The article demonstrates how to develop the BPEL process, the Java Embedded activity, Java Class and how to deploy the SOA Composite application. It also presents the results of running the composite application.
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