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Cookbook creating Business Rule Engine with a simple Decision Table in Oracle SOA Suite
5For educational purposes I’ve created a cookbook in powerpoint format on how to create a simple decision table in Oracle SOA Suite with a Business Rule engine. To share this I’ve uploaded it to slideshare and post it here in the Amis blog as well. (more…)
Timeouts in Oracle SOA Suite 11g
6Some time ago… at a Oracle SOA 11g project, we had to call an external webservice which took 1 to 5 minutes to respond. The composite calling this webservice was called by another composite from a BPEL process. As you might guess, we got an timeout resulting in faulted instances. Increasing the timeout time wasn’t as easy as I expected, because it’s not one timeout setting that had to be increased, but a total of five timeout settings! To document this for myself in case I run into it again and to help others with the same problem I’ve wrote it down in this blogpost. If you are searching for how to increase the session timeout of the BPM worklist, go to this blogpost. (more…)
Publishing the Product Details WebService based on an Excel based Product Catalog using the SOA Suite 11g File Adapter with Synchronous File Read
1On the one hand: the organization wants to publish a real Web Service, SOAP enabled and all. On the other: the data to be provided by this Web Service is maintained in Excel files and undergoes regular changes by people who are well versed in Excel but absolutely blank when it comes to Web Services.
This article demonstrates how the File Adapter can be used with a Composite application running in Oracle SOA Suite 11g to synchronously read from a file with product catalog details and return information about a single product for which the product identifier was sent to the service.
In just a few, largely declarative, steps, the bridge is built from file based article records to a real SOAP Web Service.
Manage Agility through Manage-ability – Introducing Design Time at Run Time in Oracle Fusion Middleware
0Below is my presentation from the OGH DBA, SOA & BPM Day on November 8th. My talk was about achieving instant agility with application, through the ability to manipulate behavior and look & feel of applications at run time. And also to provide various flavors – parallel versions – of the application through customization.
Oracle Fusion Middleware has built-in infrastructure to provide run time agility as well as customization. This infrastructure is commonly referred to as ‘design time at run time’ (and lately also the Fusion Extension Platform). It is based on MDS (meta data services) Repository and a bunch of run time, WYSIWYG tools: the composers.
To make agility work through design time at run time, it is adamant that organizations clearly define the roles and the process associated with it. And finding staff to play the role of ‘run time application editor’ will not be easy.
SOA Suite File Adapter Pre and Post processing using Valves and Pipelines
3A quick note on the notion of valves and pipelines that can be configured in File (and FTP) Adapter Services and References (inbound and outbound) to perform file pre- and post processing on the files before they enter the composite application proper as XML or after they have left the composite application, turned from XML to their native format and before they are written out to file.
Valves can easily be created – in a way that reminds me of Servlet Filters – and the pipeline that can be configured with a chain of valves is also quite similar to a filter chain. A valve is custom Java Class that implements one or two specific interfaces. This class is packaged in a JAR file that is added to the classpath of the SOA Suite: the valve becomes part of the generic SOA Suite infrastructure, to be used potentially by multiple composite applications – not necessarily by just a single composite. Note however that use of a valve is configured in the File Adapter binding in every composite application that wants to leverage it.
Valves can be used for several operations. Some examples on the inbound end are:
- filter files: only let through files or lines that are relevant
- split files: More >
Clone your Oracle FMW SOA Suite 11g
4Sometimes, you would like to have an extract from a SOA Suite 11g  production environment to test it in a test or acceptance environment.
There are several ways to do this, but in this post I’d like to discuss about how to get a clone of your SOA Suite 11g, from one WebLogic Server host to another.
To extract a clone, you will have to determine which components should be cloned:
- The SOA repository schema’s, like MDS, SOA-INFRA and so on.
- The WebLogic and FMW software
- The SOA Suite Domain Configuration including all SCA components and other deployments.
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