New in SOA Suite 12c and AIAFP/OER Backward Compatibility Table by Luis Augusto Weir
September 19, 2014 Leave a comment
Finally Oracle SOA Suite 12cR1 (12.1.3.0.0) is out (http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pressrelease/soa-suite-12c-062614).Having implemented all versions of SOA Suite (10.1.3.1-5, 11.1.1.1-7) I am particularly more exited about this new release as I was when its predecessors were launched. And this is because unlike the previous releases, these versions is releases in the middle of major trends such as cloud computing, mobile integration, Internet of Thins, Machine to Machine, are starting to become main-stream and I see SOA Suite 12c as a fundamental building block to supporting all of these new trends!
Listing below some of the new features of Oracle SOA 12c that I am more exited about:
- Enhanced cloud integration with cloud adapters
- Improved mobile & IoT support with REST/JSON adapters
- Seamless OEP integration (very useful for EDA’s or Big Data integration support)
- Improved user experience and productivity by:
- Finally having OSB IDE now fully supported by JDeveloper
- New “template” feature which allows developer to create blueprints of pre-built SOA/OSB composites/services
- “Composite like” development of OSB services
- Completely new ADF based OSB console
- Improved support for large/small documents transfer by incorporating the Oracle Managed File Transfers
- Backward compatibility with AIA FP with the use of SOA Core Extensions (http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1213/core/INSOA/planning.htm#INSOA498)
- As per my understanding, OER harvester for SOA 12c assets will be available as part of the release of OER 12c (12.1.3) which will come out soon
Is about the last point two points (AIA/OER) that I want to talk a bit more, specially because both of them are governance related features.
Although 12c introduces many features which will make it easier to govern a SOA project, if you are using AIA or OER in 11g or if you are about to start a 11g project, you must take note of the following:
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Much has been said about Oracle SOA Suite 10g (or JCaps) upgrades to 11g and how features map between both versions. There is also plenty of information online about this topic both official and unofficial. It’s not news to many that for example SOA Suite 10g is currently in extended support and product will enter sustaining support by the end of 2014 (I will explain more about what extended and sustaining support means later in the blog). However one fact remains truth: There are still many companies out there running platforms that are (or soon will be) in sustaining support, and that don’t yet have an upgrade strategy. I say this based on my own experience as I am currently helping several customers do exactly this.
"Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation" co-author Luis Weir discusses his book, his Oracle OpenWorld session, and a project that required him to set things right after a customer botched their original SOA Governance implementation. Interested ? read the – 
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