On Sunday afternoon Peter Ebell and I presented at the Oracle Open World (OOW) conference in San Francisco as part of an “afternoon of business cases†that was put together by the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG). Our story is related to the work that we do for customer […]
Sjoerd Michels
Extending the Oracle BPEL Error Hospital with custom Java Actions
With patch set 10.1.3.3 of its SOA Suite Oracle introduced standard fault handling functionality for BPEL. This Error Hospital framework allows the definition of policies for handling runtime exceptions, like Remote Faults and Binding Faults, that may occur on invoke activities in BPEL processes. Remote Faults occur when the service […]
Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite available
Oracle partners with IDS Scheer, a market leader in business analysis software, to further expand its offering with respect to Service Oriented Architectures. As a result of this co-operation, the long awaited Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite (BPA Suite) is now available for download from OTN. Yesterday evening I enjoyed […]
Oracle SOA Suite: further Build and Deployment Automation for Enterprise Service Bus components
Some time ago I wrote an article on SOA Suite Build, Deployment and Test Automation. A section of the article was devoted to automating builds and deployments for Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) components. Not covered was deployment of Services to multiple environments as is usually done throughout the development […]
Using Ant to inspect Connection Properties in WSDL Files that are generated by Oracle SOA Suite Adapters
Oracle SOA Suite comes with a collection of adapters that allow you to easily tap into a number of technologies from BPEL Processes or from ESB Services. Want to connect to a database, hook up to a queue or access your E-Business Suite: create an adapter for it with […]
Four Dutch Experts in ODTUG Kaleidoscope Expert Panel Session
From different posts on this blog it should be clear by now: the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference has taken off. I am writing this post as I am attending the Expert Panel session. It is noteworthy that from the eight experts in the panel, not counting moderator Paul Dorsey, four work […]
Oracle dead-serious about Web Service Security
An AMIS crew has arrived in Florida for the ODTUG 2007 Kaleidoscope conference that kicks off today. On Wednesday, June 20th, my presentation on Implementing and Managing an Oracle SOA Infrastructure is scheduled. In the presentation the Oracle Web Services Manager, OWSM for short, plays an important role. In the […]
Serve up your BPEL processes as templates
This post is about a feature in Oracle’s SOA Suite / JDeveloper 10.1.3.x that may easily go unnoticed: the option to publish a BPEL process as a template by using the Mark as Template option in JDeveloper. The use case is the following: you have assembled a BPEL process that […]
SOA Suite training for Genpact delivered – Back from India
Last week I visited Hyderabad in India in order to deliver a SOA Suite training for Genpact consultants that participate in a Systems Integration project for General Electric Plastics. The schedule for the training week was published on this blog earlier. It was my first visit to India. It was […]
AMIS goes India – Oracle SOA Suite training for Genpact
Per request of General Electric Plastics for which we participate in a systems integration project, AMIS goes India in order to deliver a SOA Suite introduction training for Genpact employees in the city of Hyderabad.
SOA Suite Build, Deployment and Test Automation – part 3: test automation
This is the last in a series of three posts. The goal of these posts is to outline an automated build procedure for Oracle’s SOA Order Booking demo application and deploy it to an Oracle Application Server that runs the SOA Suite. The first episode in this series covered the […]
SOA Suite Build, Deployment and Test Automation – part 2: automating ESB deployments
This is the second in a series of three posts. The goal of these posts is to outline an automated build procedure for Oracle’s SOA Order Booking demo application and deploy it to an Oracle Application Server that runs the SOA Suite. Oracle’s demo application is selected because it uses […]
SOA Suite Build, Deployment and Test Automation – part 1
In the latest SOA Suite release Oracle has improved the automated build capabilities. Instead of the Oracle BPEL specific Ant tool (obant, a customized version of Ant) plain vanilla Ant is now used for building and deploying BPEL suitcases. Let’s put it to the test: subject of this blog post […]