SOA Suite 11g R1 Developer’s Guide by Antony & Matt published

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

image Matt Wright & Antony Reynolds just published the 11g version of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 Developer’s Guide  It provides guidance on how to use SOA Suite to build a robust SOA solution.  More than 40% of the book is new content, including patterns for the new EDN functionality, new sections on 11g rules, new security policies etc.

Quote from Antony Reynolds blog:

When we started writing together our original target was the 11g product, but along came the BEA acquisition and 11g was delayed so we re-focused the book on 10g.  Of course a few months after the 10g book was published 11g came out and so we dusted off the earliest chapters, updated them and started again.  So in some ways this book was what we meant to write when we started.

While writing the last book Matt emigrated to Australia.  So to keep up with him while writing this book I moved to Colorado.  Matt, not to be outdone, responded by leaving Oracle and starting his own company.  Our families are now very worried what we might do if we start writing another book together.

The editorial team at Packt were very good at chasing us to finish the book, without them we would probably only be half-way through.  We had some great reviewers who provided very insightful comments and often pointed us in the right direction when we had lost our way.  You may well be familiar with some of the reviewers from their blogs or participation at industry events;

In addition to the reviewers we had a lot of support from product management at Oracle, I found Clemens Utschig particularly helpful. I hope you enjoy the book, we have tried to make it into a guide for practitioners of SOA, and endeavored to explain how and why to use different parts of the SOA Suite.  Let us know what you think.

For additional books on SOA please visit our wiki: http://wiki.oracle.com/page/SOA+Publications+Wiki

Please feel free to add books you can recommend!

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Oracle Middleware & Partners: The Next Chapter – Andrew Sutherland @ Virtual OPN Day 2010

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

You want to know the latest around Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, SOA Suite11g and BPM11g make sure that you watch Andrew Sutherland SVP Middleware EMEA video:

Oracle Middleware & Partners: The Next Chapter

You will get details what our customers are looking for, how we sell middleware and how we can support you!

You missed to attend the Oracle PartnerNetworks Days Virtual Event? Now you can watch all the presentations on-demand. There are three reasons why now is the best ever time to build your business with Oracle:

  • Software. Hardware. Complete.’ Oracle’s product and solution portfolio is unique in the industry, allowing you to offer your customers a truly comprehensive technology stack.
  • Specialization with Oracle enables you to differentiate and demonstrate the quality of your market offering.
  • Oracle continues to invest in a wide range of flexible tools and resources that enable you to develop your Oracle business independently.

The Oracle PartnerNetwork Days Virtual Event will show you how you can leverage these opportunities for maximum growth. As an Oracle partner, this on-demand event is one you simply can’t afford to miss!

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Introducing Oracle Service Bus 11g—Extending Oracle SOA Suite Leadership – Live Webcast

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Event Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Time: 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET

Oracle Releases Dramatic Performance and Scalability Innovations within Oracle Service Bus 11g
With Oracle Service Bus you can do more than ever with new and existing SOA infrastructures. You can transform complex and brittle architectures into flexible integration networks. Now you can connect, mediate, and manage interactions between services and applications across the extended enterprise.
Join Demed L’Her, Director of Product Management at Oracle and Bruce Tierney, Principal Product Director at Oracle in this live webcast as they discuss the innovations in Oracle Service Bus 11g that deliver extreme performance, scalability, agility, and cloud service integration. Discover how you can leverage this complete, open, and integrated SOA solution to:

  • Shorten response time by up to 80% for commonly requested data
  • Reduce demand on back-end applications by 60% or more
  • Reduce risk as your infrastructure expands to include more cloud services
  • Introduce service virtualization to migrate your services into a shared services infrastructure
  • Implement an “embrace and extend” strategy by leveraging your existing services and legacy enterprise service bus with Oracle Service Bus

Register for this live Webcast, another edition in a series introducing the next wave of products in
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

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Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

clip_image002Our ACE Director Guido Schmutz and his colleagues published a new book about successfully implement your own enterprise integration architecture using the Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint:

  • Overview of Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint
  • Discover and understand the structure of existing application landscapes from an integration perspective
  • Get to grips with fundamental integration concepts and terminology while learning about architecture variants
  • Fully comprehend all the individual layers and components that make up the Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint
  • Map and compare a variety of different vendor platforms to the blueprint
  • Packed with visual representations of the blueprint in order to help you fully understand its structure and implementation

For additional books on SOA please visit our wiki: http://wiki.oracle.com/page/SOA+Publications+Wiki

Please feel free to add books you can recommend!

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SOA & Application Grid Specialization – Specialization Benefits – Step 6 of 6

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Thanks for joining our series of SOA & Application Grid Specialization which can be the foundation of our joint success in the new fiscal year FY11! In this final edition we feature our Specialized Benefits for partners in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Specialization Middleware Award – Be Recognized

Make sure that you submit your SOA & Application Grid Specialization Award nomination by July 2nd 2010 to become recognized by customers and Oracle!

We are proud to announce the Partner Specialization Awards, a new annual awards program in Oracle EMEA which will recognize partners’ achievements in specialization and self-sufficiency.

Partner Specialization Awards are available to partners in EMEA who have demonstrated success with specialization and outstanding solution or service innovation.

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and commitment our partners bring to the table when they become
Specialized with Oracle. We’re looking for partners with a proven
track record in delivering winning, proven solutions that solve
customers’ most critical business challenges. Our Award winners
will be partners that have demonstrated tangible success, growth
in their Oracle business and outstanding Oracle solutions.”
Stein Surlien, SVP Oracle Alliances and Channels EMEA

Nominations are open to partners based in EMEA from 1st March to July 2nd 2010. Be recognized! Submit your nomination today!

· The winners of the Partner Specialization Awards will be announced on 19th September 2010 at the OPN Forum at Oracle OpenWorld.

Google Advertisements

For the Partners who become SOA & Application Grid Specialized we offer free Google advertisements to promote your Oracle SOA & Application Grid service offerings on your website or your SOA & Application Grid events. We will host the complete campaign management

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To create your Google campaign please send us:

  • Your campaign text: 3 lines of text each 35 letters
  • Your campaign link: direct link to the website you want to promote

A pre-requisite to participate in this free offering is that you are Specialized in SOA & Application Grid.

Oracle Partner Business Center

Whenever you need support with your SOA & Application Grid Specialization please don’t hesitate to contact your local Oracle Partner Business Center. Our experts are there to support you with all requirements and the application process:

Oracle Partner Business Centers

Or submit your questions via twitter @ORCLPartnerBiz.

Summary of our journey to SOA & Application Grid Specialization:

Step 1: Proof 2 transactions & OMM

Step 2: reference cases & marketing campaigns

Step 3: SOA Sales assessment & SOA Pre-Sales assessment & Support assessment / Application Grid Sales assessment & Application Grid Pre-Sales assessment & Support assessment

Step 4: Oracle Application Grid Certified Implementation Specialist & Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist

Step 5: Validate Speak to Partner Business Centers & Check competency status & submit your application

For more information on Specialization please get the Specialization Guide and attend our OPN Specialized Webcast Series

Thanks for your efforts to become Specialized!

Jürgen Kress

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SOA Community Booth & Watch Andrew Sutherland SVP Middleware @ OPN Virtual Event

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

to kickoff our Fiscal Year FY11 we invite you to attend our virtual Partner Network Day:

Dr.<br /> Andrew SutherlandMake sure that you watch the presentation from Dr. Andrew Sutherland, Senior VP, Middleware Business, Oracle EMEA – June 29th 2010 13:00 CET

Meet the SOA Partner Community at the virtual booth

For registration and details please visit : http://tinyurl.com/opnday2010

Oracle PartnerNetworks Days Virtual Event! New products. New specializations. New opportunities.

There are three reasons why now is the best ever time to build your business with Oracle:

  • ONE: ‘Software. Hardware. Complete.’ Oracle’s product and solution portfolio is unique in the industry, allowing you to offer your customers a truly comprehensive technology stack.
  • TWO: Specialization with Oracle enables you to differentiate and demonstrate the quality of your market offering.
  • THREE: Oracle continues to invest in a wide range of flexible tools and resources that enable you to develop your Oracle business independently.

The Oracle PartnerNetwork Days Virtual Event will show you how you can leverage these opportunities for maximum growth. As an Oracle partner, this live online event is one you simply can’t afford to miss!

REGISTER NOW!

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pre-defined SOA = AIA Knowledge Zone

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) and its pre-built, open and complete architecture for orchestrating agile, user-centric business processes across enterprise applications is ideal to build custom SOA solutions or integrate standard solutions like Siebel into SAP.

To support you as a partner best we created the AIA Knowledge Zone and AIA Specialization at the Oracle Partner Network (OPN). The Oracle PartnerNetwork will empower your company with exceptional resources to distinguish your offerings from the competition, seize opportunities, and increase your sales:

  • Deliver “out of the box” end to end integration to your customers – by leveraging pre-built solutions at the data, process and UI level delivering a more complete process solution to business end users. Access OPN Education Benefits to train your staff on Oracle’s AIA and SOA offerings.
  • Build, deploy, and sell more complete solutions – by leveraging Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Packs, providing a common integration framework, with pre-built components and methodologies that are designed to work together in a mix and match fashion. Build integrations for configurability and ultimately lower the cost of IT – build, extend, reuse and maintain integrations.
  • Increase your services margin and expand your capacity to close deals. Oracle Application Integration Architecture enables companies to optimize the value of their existing applications by enabling end to end business process solutions.
  • Reduce implementation risk and cost – by leveraging Oracle’s pre-built, sustainable integrations that enable rapid integration with existing business processes. Explore Application Integration Architecture for Partners initiative which provides partners several tools and methodologies for integrating with Oracle’s broad portfolio of applications
    NEW! Applications Integration Architecture Specialization!

    Be one of the very first to become an Oracle Applications Integration Architecture Specialist!
    Check out the Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Knowledge Zone and go to the Specialize tab to learn how you can become an AIA Specialized Partner.
    Go to the OPN Competency Center to access AIA Specialist Guided Leaning Paths and assessments!
    Register for the OU beta exam at the nearest Pearson VUE testing center.

    Oracle Application Integration Architecture 11g Essentials (1Z1-543) exam is available in beta version from now through July 10, 2010. Pass the exam to become an Oracle AIA Certified Implementation Specialist!

    As an incentive we are offering FREE beta exam vouchers to early-adopter Partners. As there are a limited number of free vouchers available, the requests will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis.

    For More Information

    Your feedback about Specialization – contact Us
    Please direct any inquiries you might have to Oracle Partner Enablement team at opn-edu_ww@oracle.com or tweet us @oraclepartners or post your comment in our Linkedin Oracle Partner Network group

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    SOA & Application Grid Specialization– Validate your Application – Step 5 of 6

    July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

    Thanks for joining our series of SOA & Application Grid Specialization which can be the foundation of our joint success in the new fiscal year FY11!

    Summery or our journey to SOA & Application Grid Specialization:

    Step 1: Proof 2 transactions & OMM

    Step 2: reference cases & marketing campaigns

    Step 3: SOA Sales assessment & SOA Pre-Sales assessment & Support assessment / Application Grid Sales assessment & Application Grid Pre-Sales assessment & Support assessment

    Step 4: Oracle Application Grid Certified Implementation Specialist & Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist

    Before you submit your application please validate the criteria:

    If you are certain that you meet all of these criteria Apply Now to become specialized. Your application can only be submitted by the Oracle Partner Network Administrator (PRN Admin) in your company! If you do not know this person please contact the Partner Business Centers to find out.

    PRM Specialize menu

    Select Middleware in the PRM Specialize menu

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    Select a Specialization:

    Select SOA and/or Application Grid

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    Enter reference information

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    Reference Criteria for Specialization

    • Project completed in the last 18 months

    • Project has to include products in the current or previous version of the Specialization products

    • Customer can be used for several references if each reference is an independent project

    • Same reference can be used for different Specializations if the products listed match the Specialization products

    • Internal implementations can NOT be used as reference

    • Complete information must be provided

    Customer Reference Documentation Data captured during enrollment

    • Customer Name, Industry, Country

    • Customer’s Contact Info

    – Name

    – Title

    – Phone

    – Email

    • Project Name

    • Project Completion Date

    • Oracle products and/or services related to this reference

    – specify the version

    • Business challenges for the customer

    • Describe the Oracle or joint solution implemented

    • Oracle Contact (If known): Email address

    Enter your transactions

    Transactions achieved in the last 12 months

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    Complete your Specialists

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    Notification & Status

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    If you need to get an Oracle Partner Network Account or you need support with the application please contact our Partner Business Centers.

    For more information on Specialization please visit our OPN Specialized Webcast Series and become a member in our SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/ema/soa

    Jürgen Kress, SOA Partner Adoption EMEA

    Thanks for your efforts to become Specialized

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    Specialized & Recognized by Oracle: Award season – make your submission for the OPN Specialization & OFM awards!

    July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

    OPN Specialization Award Submit your nomination EMEA Partner Specialization Awards2010

    As an Oracle Partner in the process to become SOA & Application Grid Specialized and working on SOA and Application Grid opportunities please make sure that you submit your OPN Specialization Award Submit your nomination. Prices include free Oracle Open World tickets, marketing budgets for joint campaigns and joint press release.

    “These awards will recognize the high-level of innovation, excellence
    and commitment our partners bring to the table when they become
    Specialized with Oracle. We’re looking for partners with a proven
    track record in delivering winning, proven solutions that solve
    customers’ most critical business challenges. Our Award winners
    will be partners that have demonstrated tangible success, growth
    in their Oracle business and outstanding Oracle solutions.”
    Stein Surlien, SVP Oracle Alliances and Channels EMEA

    Nominations are open to partners based in EMEA from 1st March to 2nd July 2010.

    Be recognized! Submit your nominations today

    Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards 2010

    As an Oracle Customer and Partner make sure that you submit your Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards nomination

    Does your company use Oracle Fusion Middleware innovatively?
    Nominate your organization today for a chance to be recognized for your cutting-edge solution using any of the following Oracle Fusion Middleware products:

    • Oracle Application Grid products
    • Oracle SOA Suite
    • Data Integration & Availability
    • Oracle Identity Management Suite
    • Oracle Fusion Middleware with Oracle Applications
    • Enterprise 2.0

    Prices include:

    • FREE pass to Oracle OpenWorld 2010 in San Francisco for select winners in each category. Honored by Oracle executives at awards ceremony held during Oracle OpenWorld 2010 in San Francisco.
    • Oracle Middleware Innovation Award Winner Plaque
    • 1-3 meetings with Oracle Executives during Oracle OpenWorld 2010
    • Feature article placement in Oracle Magazine and placement in Oracle Press Release
    • Customer snapshot and video testimonial opportunity, to be hosted on oracle.com
    • Podcast interview opportunity with Senior Oracle ExecutiveSubmit your nomination to Innovation-Middleware_us@oracle.com on or before August 6th 2010 to win Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards 2010.

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    Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g next launch phase – what a week of product releases! Feedback from our ACE Directors and key Partners

    July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

      Product releases:

    BPM Suite 11gR1 Released by Manoj Das

    Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 became available for download from OTN and eDelivery. If you have been following our plans in this area, you know that this is the release unifying BEA ALBPM product, which became Oracle BPM10gR3, with the Oracle stack.

    Some of the highlights of this release are:studio-process

    • BPMN 2.0 modeling and simulation
    • Web based Process Composer for BPMN and Rules authoring
    • Zero-code environment with full access to Oracle SOA Suite’s rich set of application and other adapters
    • Process Spaces – Out-of-box integration with Web Center Suite
    • Process Analytics – Native process cubes as well as integration with Oracle BAM

    You can learn more about this release from the documentation.

    Notes about downloading and installing

    Please note that Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 is delivered and installed as part of SOA 11.1.1.3.0, which is a sparse release (only incremental patch). To install:

    • Download and install SOA 11.1.1.2.0, which is a full release (you can find the bits at the above location)
    • Download and install SOA 11.1.1.3.0
    • During configure step (using the Fusion Middleware configuration wizard), use the Oracle Business Process Management template supplied with the SOA Suite11g (11.1.1.3.0)
    • If you plan to use Process Spaces, also install Web Center 11.1.1.3.0, which also is delivered as a sparse release and needs to be installed on top of Web Center 11.1.1.2.0
    SOA Suite 11gR1 Patch Set 2 (PS2) released by Demed L’Her

    We just released SOA Suite 11gR1 Patch Set 2 (PS2)!

    You can download it as usual from:

    11gR1 PS2 is delivered as a sparse installer, that is to say that it is meant to be applied on the latest full install (11gR1 PS1). That’s great for existing PS1 users who simply need to apply the patch and run the patch assistant – but an extra step for new users who will first need to download SOA Suite 11gR1 PS1 (in addition to the PS2 patch).

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    What’s in that release? Bug fixes of course but also several significant new features. Here is a short selection of the most significant ones:

    • Spring component (for native Java extensibility and integration)
    • SOA Partitions (to organize and manage your composites)
    • Direct Binding (for transactional invocations to and from Oracle Service Bus)
    • HTTP binding (for those of you trying to do away with SOAP and looking for simple GET and POST)
    • Resequencer (for ordering out-of-order messages)
    • WS Atomic Transactions (WS-AT) support (for propagation of transactions across heterogeneous environments)

    Check out the complete list of new features in PS2 for more (including links to the documentation for the above)!

    But maybe even more importantly we are also releasing Oracle Service Bus 11gR1 and BPM Suite 11gR1 at the same time – all on the same base platform (WebLogic Server 10.3.3)!

    (NB: it might take a while for all pages and caches to be updated with the new content so if you don’t find what you need today, try again soon!)

    Are you Systems Integrations and Independent Software Vendors ready to adopt and to deliver?

    Make sure that you become trained:

    Time to download the software and test the new features!
    Jürgen Kress, SOA Partner Adoption EMEA
     

    First feedback from our ACE Directors and key Partners:

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    Now, these are great times to start the journey into BPM!

    Hajo Normann
     

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    Reuse of components across the Oracle 11G Fusion Middleware stack, BPM just is one of the components plugging into the stack and reuses all other components.

    Mr. Leon Smiers
     

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    With BPM11g, Oracle offers a very competitive product which will have a big effect on the IT market.

    Guido Schmutz
    image We have real BPMN 2.0, which get’s executed. No more transformation from business models to executable models – just press the run button…

    Torsten Winterberg
     

    image Oracle BPM Suite 11g brings Out-of-box integration with WebCenter Suite and Oracle ADF development framework.

    Andrejus Baranovskis
     

    image With the release of BPM Suite 11g, Oracle has defined new standards for Business Process platforms.

    Geoffroy de Lamalle
     

    image With User Messaging Service you can let Soa Suite 11g do all your Messaging Edwin Biemond

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    What is your feedback?  Who installed the software? please feel free to share your experience at http://twitter.com/soacommunity

    #soacommunity

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