My first take on SOA/BPM Suite 12c. by Jang Vijay Singh

October 13, 2014 Leave a comment

The Oracle Fusion Middleware circles have been abuzz this weekend with the launch of the latest and greatest release of BPM/SOA Suite 12c.
The 12c release announcement late Friday evening (GMT+1, UK time) caught me pleasantly off guard as during the past 6 months I have been very focused on a client project.

Listing below are just a few of my initial notes on the features that caught my attention.
– Experience with initial installation
Downloaded the generic quick start installation bundle for 64 bit JVM’s.
After the download, it took 9 minutes to install and get JDev running with a blank BPM project (Others on the twitter hashtag #BPMSuite12c reported around 15-20 minutes so I think my lower time might be due to the solid state drive in my laptop). Configuration of the integrated domain and launching the server took longer though but was straightforward and smooth.
I really might be one of the first few in the UK (maybe even the first) who reported installing 12c on the twitter hashtag #BPMSuite12c (1:30 AM UK Time on the 28th of June) after its public release.
– True convergence of BPM and BPA?
Sounds like marketingspeak, but that is the phrase that comes to mind when I see the new ‘BA’ circle that surrounds the familiar ‘BPM loop’ I felt the BPM Composer 11g completely lacked BPA (business process analysis) support but that seems to have changed now..
– Feature: process comparator/ history tab in BPMN
I had noticed in earlier releases that the ‘history’ tab used to be missing in the JDeveloper BPMN studio’s process designer view. BPMN definition is essentially just another XML file (albeit a lot more complex to interpret without tool support unlike BPEL) so this didn’t make much sense. Seeing the ‘history’ tab with the ‘process comparator’ feature made me realise why it took this long. It’s a fairly complex feature to have (and very useful to have for any collaborative development or even for any to-and-fro between the composer and JDev BPM studio). They needed to get it right.

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Unknown's avatarAbout Jürgen Kress
As a middleware expert Jürgen works at Oracle EMEA Alliances and Channels, responsible for Oracle’s EMEA Fusion Middleware partner business. He is the founder of the Oracle SOA & BPM and the WebLogic Partner Communities and the global Oracle Partner Advisory Councils. With more than 5000 members from all over the world the Middleware Partner Community is the most successful and active community at Oracle. Jürgen manages the community with monthly newsletters, webcasts and conferences. He hosts his annual Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forums and the Fusion Middleware Summer Camps, where more than 200 partners get product updates, roadmap insights and hands-on trainings. Supplemented by many web 2.0 tools like twitter, discussion forums, online communities, blogs and wikis. For the SOA & Cloud Symposium by Thomas Erl, Jürgen is a member of the steering board. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences like the SOA & BPM Integration Days, JAX, UKOUG, OUGN, or OOP.

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